Re: My usability experience - Asa Dotzler should be fired
Asa Dotzler <[email protected]>
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Petter Andersson wrote: > On Aug 17, 9:23 pm, Asa Dotzler<[email protected]> wrote: > >> I hear what you're saying, but it sounds to me a lot like "You all >> should just go home. Netscape 4 was good enough. You're wasting >> everyone's time by trying to improve." >> >> Maybe that's not your intent, but I'm having a difficult time figuring >> out what it is you think Mozilla should exist for if Netscape 4 was good >> enough. > > That's not what I'm saying at all. Netscape 4 as a web browser was > prone to crashing and had too many bugs to list. If Netscape 4 was > "don't even breathe that way, lest it not crash"-grade, Firefox 3.6 is > earthquake-proof by comparison. So clearly there has been progress. > Addition of tabs I embraced instantly, no difficulty whatsoever - but > only Tab Mix Plus (I fail to remember what was the comparable add-on > for Mozilla Suite, but it was very much necessary indeed) made it > really good for me. Bookmarks ceased to exist for me, as everything > relevant is now "limboing" in open tabs (most often 50+ at a time, > before cleanup a few weeks back I was with well over 120 open tabs - > and thanks to TMP fairly well crash-proofed too). I guess what I'm > saying is, I expect things getting better under the hood but not > necessarily any surprises in the UI. The Good Old Way wins. So stability (not crashing) plus one new feature every 15 years or so would probably satisfy you. That's a completely reasonable position. I'll bet there are others who feel the same. I don't think that most people would agree with that or that Mozilla could possibly advance its mission (the reason Firefox exists in the first place) using that approach. Have you read the Mozilla mission documents? I think they might help explain why we're not just a more stable Netscape 4 with Tabs. - A http://www.mozilla.org/about/mission.html http://www.mozilla.org/about/manifesto.en.html and just about everything that Mitchell Baker, a Mozilla founder and the leader of the Mozilla project, has to say at: http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/