Re: Galeon 2 User Interface

[email protected],

> Others to the fact that I believe simple UI rocks (limited user
> target, no web developers). Others by the fact that I want galeon to
> be usable by real users, I dont care about geeks (sorry).

Personally I don't see the contradiction between a feature rich
browser "for geeks" and a browser usable by "real users".  Other
browsers, ie. Internet Explorer, has tons of features that are way too
advanced for most people to understand, but still it's used by ~90% of
the people using the web.

Take for instance the security settings in IE.  You can use a slide
bar to switch between "high", "medium", "medium-low" and "low", but
click "Custom level" and you're presented with choices like "Access
data sources across domains", "Launching programs and files in an
IFRAME" and "Software channel permissions".  No normal users know what
these things are, still they're in there.

And under the "Advanced" tab you have options like "Force offscreen
compositing even under Terminal Server", "Use inline AutoComplete",
"JIT compiler for virtual machine enabled" and tons of other things
cryptical to the guy next door.

And no, I'm not saying "Look to Microsoft" :), but I think it shows
that it's possible to have advanced features in a browser used by J
Random Surfer, and thus satisfying both camps in the Galeon group.


Vennlig som vanlig, Eirik

-- 
Eirik Refsdal,
[email protected] -- http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~eirikref/


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