Re: My usability experience - Asa Dotzler should be fired

Petter Andersson wrote:

> I'm talking about shuffling things around for the sake of shuffling
> things around "because we can" or "we believe it will be more trendy
> this way".

If you're saying that's what Firefox designers spend their time on, 
that's rather insulting. Can you re-read that and actually consider if 
you think that's what the professionals working on this product are doing?

> even with Firefox, to a degree. I guess what I'm saying, if a browser
> still resembles Netscape Navigator 4.71 + Tab Bar, then all is well
> and everyone feels right at home :)

OK. That's an interesting point of view. Not one I share, but certainly 
not unreasonable. Most people do not like change, even when that change 
can be really helpful to them. I have a suggestion for you. If you like 
how Netscape Navigator 4.71  would look with a Tab bar (and a modern 
rendering engine) Mozilla supports such a product and it's called 
SeaMonkey. Maybe give that a try. http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

I'm also curious, since we do have pretty much exactly what you propose 
in Seamonkey, how do you think users would react in a side-by-side 
comparison between Seamonkey and Firefox? Would they all flock to 
Seamonkey because "everyone would feel right at home there"? (A quick 
reminder though -- about 90% of the people on the web today came onto 
the web after Netscape Navigator had already faded from view)

- A