Story: Firefox 1.0PR: a first look
Posted by: Dmitrii Dimandt aka Mamut (Thursday 16 September 2004, 4:04 PM)
How is Tabbed MDI good? Please explain this concept to me.
Look, in order to switch to a page from another working app you have to do the following:
Tabbed MDI, standard OS interface:
1. Remember that the "Internet thingy" is shown in one window
2. Click on that window's button at the _bottom_ of the screen
3. Remember page name / tab location
4. Click on that tab at the _top_ or _possibly at the bottom_ (you have to remeber that, too) of the screen.
SDI (IE), standard OS interface:
1. Remember page name / window button location
2. Click on that window's button at the bottom of the screen
Now, how is Tabbed MDI good for browsing?
And tell me one more thing. Would you switch from your comfy WinWord 2k / XP interface back to WinWord 97 interface? I guessed you would say 'no'. So why is reverting back to old interface concepts is called a good thing?
If you need Tabbed browsing, most current OSes support grouping of similar taskbar items - there you go : )
Oh, on the final note. The 'built-in Google search'. Just in case you are wondering, I have it right here in my IE (and Firefox 0.9.7 for that matter). It's called 'tha Google Toolbar'. And what if I decide to use, say, alltheweb.com instead of Google? No way, Jose, you say?
I don't care about skins, tabbed interfaces or built-in searches.
Show me the real stuff. Fast page rendering. Standard plug-ins. _Non-intrusive_ error messages (_not_ message boxes). Compliance to standards _and_ non-standards that have a tendency to become standards de facto, like DHTML. Yes, DHTML!
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