Flock, the New Browser on the Block

^tamago^ writes to tell us BusinessWeek Online is reporting that a new browser is stepping into the arena. This new competitor, Flock, hopes to change the face of web browsing by turning their's into the swiss army knife of browsers. From the article: "Flock's browser is built specifically for a new, emerging generation of Web users, one that isn't satisfied passively browsing media online. Flock hopes to turn the browser into a dashboard for collaborating, blogging, sharing photos, reveling in a raft of other group activities that have recently caught fire online"

Comments

Re:No Invite

[Synli]

> "Oh great, here come all the rabid Firefox advocates out
> of the woodwork to bash anything non-Firefox. Firefox,
> Firefox, Firefox!"

Agreed -- thought the same thing. I'd add something more spicy: I think these screaming FF fans are the Firefox developers themselves (feeling endangered by new non-MS competition).

Re:Yuck indeed

[thatguywhoiam]

It's the fucking worst website I've seen since the horror of mid-90's Geocities sites. It's fucking poncy, it screams "we think we are really clever" and not many people like that. big text and reduced character spacing is not big, it is not clever, it is near unreadable, and that is pretty retarded.

The nerds have spoken: I declare the design to be an unqualified success.

Honestly, I thought the look was refreshing and interesting. It's basically a flyer, after all. If you saw that printed on paper you wouldn't think twice about the design. Of course, web and paper design are not directly comparable, but for typography they are, and I see nothing wrong with their design.

But of course, it does not incorporate tiny aliased fonts, set in yellow on a transparent window alphablended over some tentacle porn. Also, it is insufficiently full of knicknacky doodads like silly polls, slashboxes, rss feeds, sci-fi-themed icons (that Bill Gates borg never gets old!) widgetry, countless superflouos hyperlinks and useless redundant headers. And it doesn't begin to compare to the timeless beauty that is X11.

Spare me.