Comments on: Identity Crisis?

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 05:52:06 +0000

Sebhelyesfarku: I would agree the tab design is awkward, but I wouldn’t call Safari a p.o.s. It’s got a great slim UI.

By: sven

sven — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:17:41 +0000

nevermind the buttons, what about unified stop and reload button?
i would love it!

By: Sebhelyesfarku

Sebhelyesfarku — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:29:25 +0000

Safari is a p.o.s., unnecessary to copy its retarded interface (tabs upside down…)

By: Chris Ilias

Chris Ilias — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:35:51 +0000

I can see the need to make the toolbar items more recognizable as toolbar items (borders, lighter background), but please don’t change the icons themselves, particularly the colours.

By: Giorgio Maone

Giorgio Maone — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:25:32 +0000

Latest mockup by J. Mous looks great IMHO, but I definitely agree with m0ck about tab disconnection weirdness: the whole metaphor of tabs implies they're connected to the content to be shown.

By: monk.e.boy

monk.e.boy — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:15:07 +0000

I think the GUI should blend in and look like a native app.

Every web page has it’s own GUI, the whole page is a GUI and this is where people expect innovation, not in the chrome.

keep the chrome simple. If you want a fancy GUI with swizzy colours and snazzy animation, do it in your own web site.

But the one thing I would say is grey is a very boring background colour. Take a look at how digg.com has used blue and green well. Perhaps firefox could keep it clean and easy, with a hint of colour.

monk.e.boy

By: m0ck

m0ck — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:33:01 +0000

Consistency with native OS GUI is important but that doesn’t mean Fx should look exactly like Safari… Like someone said in digg comment: Camino does have native look-n-feel but do not copy Safari.
Additionaly, I personaly found tabs not connected with webpage kind of weird…