Its pretty common mistake made often daily. Abstracting users from Time is also quite hard to achieve especially given the array of variables that a browser can come attached with (CPU / GPU speeds, Bandwidth Latency, Task / Processes running in background ..ie I/O latency etc).
If you're bored read this study on Progress Bar's and just how stupid we human beings can be on a little ol Progress Bar https://ritdml.rit.edu/bitstream/handle/1850/10867/33058_pdf_29344_26CF3AD6-D9B7-11DE-BDEF-B767F0E6BF1D.pdf?sequence=1 <https://ritdml.rit.edu/bitstream/handle/1850/10867/33058_pdf_29344_26CF3AD6-D9B7-11DE-BDEF-B767F0E6BF1D.pdf?sequence=1>Now amplify that across all your user interface principles. As for IE9 sucking? yeah I don't: - Metro "back" button. I'm kinda drinking the Microsoft pre-ordained cookie cut UI Metro Koolaid but seriously big BACK buttons aren't exactly smart unless you have some kind of weird Fits & Hick's law voodoo going on? - Tabs are two narrow in height. On a desktop I can live with this, but on a laptop resting on my - lap - using a track pad on say a train? ..its kind of a mini game of "See if you can hit my X and win a prize" - Alerts at the bottom. Sure I get the whole "Hey its a passive info-ware area!" moments of goodness. It however is hard at times to distinguish between the site i'm currently on and the IE chrome. Furthermore "Show all Content" alerts when folks bring in ext resources via SSL sites are freaking annoying. I'd prefer it just say "Would you like to forgive this site from here on out of its SSL naughtiness? - *click* Forgive it is" - No dashboard page? - I love my chrome dashboard thumbnail of frequently visited sites... - etc.. I could list a few "why i dislike IE" more.. but for me at the end of the day it's a Chrome Clone..so while I know how IE9 came to be from inside/outside Microsoft perspective(s) it still feels a bit cheapened to just catchup to the guy (Google) who picked a fight with you in the Browser-school yard? they could do more - that is if they manage to stop losing their team members to the Google Chrome team :) --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Michael Minutillo < michael.minuti...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just goes to show you it doesn't matter how fast it actually IS, it matters > how fast it FEELS to the end user. Good UI is psychology more than > engineering. > > > > On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:27 AM, David Connors <da...@codify.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Winston Pang <winstonp...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> I mean it actually feels a lot slower to load her up as well, compared >>> to chrome, not sure how google did it, but it feels so much more >>> smoother and faster to use chrome than anything else, I mean creating >>> a new tab in chrome feels so damn fast! >>> >> >> If you can get past the dreadful performance of the speaker in this video, >> it explains why it is so fast. Good engineering and a helping of smoke and >> mirrors. :) >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymgXTdWWNUU >> >> -- >> *David Connors* | da...@codify.com | www.codify.com >> Software Engineer >> Codify Pty Ltd >> Phone: +61 (7) 3210 6268 | Facsimile: +61 (7) 3210 6269 | Mobile: +61 417 >> 189 363 >> V-Card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors >> Address Info: https://www.codify.com/contact >> >> >
