Friday, February 07, 2003


Egads


Wow, that’s brave. 386 comments, last time I looked. I won’t even hit that comments link, I just know it would be, to borrow someone else’s metaphor, like browsing Slashdot comments at -1.

My only requests are, I suspect, trivial and non-controversial. I’d like to see TITLE attributes and ACRONYM tags fire off tooltips when they are moused over, as happens in Chimera and Mozilla. I’d also like to see some sort of forms autofill implemented, hopefully with a usable UI, as opposed to whatever the hell that thing in Mozilla is. Steven Frank already mentioned the bookmarks toolbar bug in this entry, and that’s something I would have mentioned if he hadn’t already done such a good job of describing the issue. The quickly accessible “Block Pop Up Windows” menu item is nice, and it would be even nicer if it were an optional toolbar button. I like the minimalist UI tack the Safari team has taken so far. I hope they can resist the “implement two hundred prefpanels for every little thing” pressure that seems to overwhelm any other project that requests UI feedback from the kind of people who post UI comments in blogs — remember, we are not typical end users, and we are entirely capable of wrecking usability for the silent 99% (yes, I’m guilty of this myself.) We’ve seen the results of this, and it’s not pretty.


:: Dave Walker 09:17 (EST/EDT) [+]

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