Re: My usability experience - Asa Dotzler should be fired

Sailfish <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.ui
Message-ID <[email protected]>
My bloviated meandering follows what David Tenser graced us with on 
8/18/2011 2:28 PM:
> On 2011-08-17 18:23, Petter Andersson wrote:
>> On Aug 17, 6:00 pm, David Tenser<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>
>>>   From a usability point of view, I beg to differ. With tabs on top, you
>>> can just reach for the top edge of the screen (assuming the window is
>>> maximized, which most browser windows are for power users). This is far
>>> easier than pointing precisely where the tab strip is, even if it's a
>>> few pixels closer to the web page with tabs under the toolbars.
>>>
>>> You can read more about this 
>>> here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law#Success_and_implications
>>
>> Browser window is maximized, but you assume tabs are at very top.
>> Sorry... Windows XP, classic theme here (good old grey and blue and no
>> stupid transparencies a'la Aero). Titlebar is on top, then come File|
>> Edit|View|History|Bookmarks|Tools|Help etc.
>>
> 
> Ah. On Windows 7 (aero) the tabs are truly on top. I assumed that was 
> the case in XP as well, but I guess I was wrong.
> 
fwiw, "tabs on top" works the same in Win7 and XP.

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