If your machine is at all RAM-challenged, the cumulative crap that's being loaded into web pages and web app interfaces is causing curses and crashes for Firefox. I don't even want to think about IE or Safari, because I'm way too dependent on my Firefox functional plug-ins (mainly Delicious bookmarks, but also feedly), but I literally have 1-2 Firefox crashes a night when working at home.
Of course, it would help if I upgraded my RAM on my home machine, but I'm too cheap these days, and what does it say about us, if we are loading up web pages with too much CUMULATIVE animations and swooshes and drag and drops etc. and like such as? It's not whether a SINGLE page with an app is doing this to me. It's the fact that I've got multiple tabs and windows open, and if I've got GMAIL open, plus have opened feedly once (so its little widget shows up as I continue surfing), and somebody sends me a YouTube of Vimeo video to look at quick (or say if I open Rachel Maddow's home page on MSNBC, with it's big-ass video player), I am instantly headed for a Firefox crash. I have to say, it is really getting on my last nerve, and if for me, imagine what it is doing to regular, non-designer surfer people! Chris On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:35 AM, William Hudson < william.hud...@syntagm.co.uk> wrote: > Hi, Hugh. > > It's called a 'drag handle' and lots of things have them (toolbars in > Windows for example). > > You need somewhere to click in order to drag something, and since in > many cases clicking on the text does something else (opening the email > in gmail) a drag handle is handy (as it were<g>), although not > essential. However, it does have the added benefit of providing a visual > cue. Changing the cursor to a drag hand is the coup de grace (but that > could be done without the handle if other aspects of the design allowed > for it). > > Regards, > > William Hudson > Syntagm Ltd > Design for Usability > UK 01235-522859 > World +44-1235-522859 > US Toll Free 1-866-SYNTAGM > mailto:william.hud...@syntagm.co.uk > http://www.syntagm.co.uk > skype:williamhudsonskype > > Syntagm is a limited company registered in England and Wales (1985). > Registered number: 1895345. Registered office: 10 Oxford Road, Abingdon > OX14 2DS. > > Confused about dates in interaction design? See our new study (free): > http://www.syntagm.co.uk/design/datesstudy.htm > > 12 UK mobile phone e-commerce sites compared! Buy the report: > http://www.syntagm.co.uk/design/uxbench.shtml > > Courses in card sorting and Ajax interaction design. London, Las Vegas > and Berlin: > http://www.syntagm.co.uk/design/csadvances.shtml > http://www.syntagm.co.uk/design/ajaxdesign.shtml > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: new-boun...@ixda.org [mailto:new-boun...@ixda.org] On Behalf Of > > Hugh Griffith > > Sent: 24 July 2009 08:59 > > To: disc...@ixda.org > > Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Gmail drag and drop > > > ... > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
