David Tenser wrote: > [snip]
> Read here http://mpt.phrasewise.com/stories/storyReader$35 > Interesting reading about the lack of usability in Mozilla. At least I > agree with the author. > Oh man, THANK YOU for that link. Here, suck this down all you Mozillapologists; this is from "the owner of the User Interface Design component" according to Gavin Long: "Navigator’s current toolbar layout is fundamentally broken." "The problem is with everything else [other than rendering a web page], where Mozilla is breathtakingly slow." Yep, you heard the man: BREATHTAKINGLY SLOW. "Mozilla is currently heavily lopsided towards expert users, and people who prefer using the keyboard to using the mouse: as mentioned above, it has not enough toolbar buttons, and conversely it has too many menus. Menus are the most difficult GUI control to use, so you need to keep them as simple and uncluttered as possible. Mozilla, unfortunately, does the opposite." And finally: "Like other browsers, Mozilla can appeal to the authority of the World Wide Web Consortium, and the recommendations produced by the Consortium on how browsers should behave. [...] But such an appeal to authority will cut no ice with users, most of whom have never even heard of the W3C, let alone care about its recommendations. If a site works in Internet Explorer, and even (in many cases) in Netscape 4.x, but not in their Mozilla-based browser, without any other information users will naturally assume that the problem is with Mozilla." They will assume that because that is of course in fact where the problem lies. Save your breath Mozillapologists, these aren't my words, they're from the guy who's in charge of the UI design himself. Talk to him if you have problems faceing reality.
