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IE UI Designer On His Switch To FireFox

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the abandoning-your-own-child dept.

wellington writes "Scott Berkun (who worked on UI design for Internet Explorer 1.0 thru 5.0) talked about why he switched to Firefox. In addition to five reasons why he switched, Scott also detailed five UI flaws in Firefox."

6 of 728 comments (clear)

  1. UI Flaw #6 by GreggyBUIUC · · Score: 5, Funny

    It doesn't come packaged with XP

  2. Re:Sweet error message in FF 1.5 beta by Malc · · Score: 4, Funny

    "If you're cool"

    You are aware of which forum you're posting to aren't you?

  3. Re:Sweet error message in FF 1.5 beta by bad_outlook · · Score: 4, Funny

    You^H^H^H I must be new here!

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  4. Re:Who' by Shakrai · · Score: 4, Funny

    You'd rather memorize a zillion dinky eye squinting icons?

    Yeah, but you can make them bigger if you use the ctrl key and the scroll wheel.

    Oh, wait a minute...

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  5. Re:My favorite reason by xaque · · Score: 3, Funny

    Really? I'd be interested in meeting this other person. Do you have their email address?

  6. Re:UI suggestion by mollymoo · · Score: 5, Funny
    Bad Slashdot.

    Yeah, they really should implement some kind of 'Preview' function and put a message on the posting page mentioning it. If they put the button right next to 'Submit' nobody could possibly miss it

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