Oh yes, I forgot about the crashes.
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Corneliu I. Tusnea Sent: Tuesday, 3 May 2011 3:11 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: IE9: why do I hate it so much I'm in the same boat. I totally dislike the tabs. Even more my tabs don't always open. I can consistently get my IE stuck in opening a tab. It "opens" and switches to the new tab but the tab never appears and I can't go back. I'm left with only one tab with the "your most popular sites" and everything else locked up. I get this 10 times a day. (this is on a fresh installation less than 10 days old install). I also dislike the "Your most popular sites" thing. I need to see the screenshot not just some logos and a random useless text. I think Metro started to take over usability. Oh, and don't get me started on the favourites and plugins and random stupi*** ActiveX extensions. I tried to use it in anger for few weeks. Now I only use it for OWA and SharePoint access. I think IE9 is the Vista of IE :) Corneliu On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Scott Barnes <scott.bar...@gmail.com> wrote: 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 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 | <mailto:da...@codify.com> da...@codify.com | <http://www.codify.com> www.codify.com Software Engineer Codify Pty Ltd Phone: +61 (7) 3210 6268 <tel:%2B61%20%287%29%203210%206268> | Facsimile: +61 (7) 3210 6269 <tel:%2B61%20%287%29%203210%206269> | Mobile: +61 417 189 363 <tel:%2B61%20417%20189%20363> V-Card: <https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors> https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors Address Info: <https://www.codify.com/contact> https://www.codify.com/contact
