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Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon
Barence writes "Mozilla has announced that its plans to bring Office 2007's Ribbon interface to Firefox, as it looks to tidy up its 'dated' browser. 'Starting with Vista, and continuing with Windows 7, the menu bar is going away,' notes Mozilla in its plans for revamping the Firefox user interface. '[It will] be replaced with things like the Windows Explorer contextual strip, or the Office Ribbon, [which is] now in Paint and WordPad, too.' The change will also bring Windows' Aero Glass effects to the browser." Update: 09/24 05:01 GMT by T : It's not quite so simple, says Alexander Limi, who works on the Firefox user experience. "We are not putting the Ribbon UI on Firefox. The article PCpro quotes talks about Windows applications in general, not Firefox." So while the currently proposed direction for Firefox 3.7 involves some substantial visual updates for Windows users (including a menu bar hidden by default, and integration of Aero-styled visual elements), it's not actually a ribbon interface. Limi notes, too, that Linux and Mac versions are unaffected by the change.
You know what you are?
You're a ribbon bully!
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon
Many To Replace Firefox With Opera
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Dear TheMCP,
I use a PET2001. There are no menus. It has no graphical rendering. I can't even get Lynx to run on it.
This letter has as much to do with the discussion as yours does. Please take your fellatious Mac worship elsewhere.
Love,
Red Flayer
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
I'll wait until the obvious font problem is fixed.
Its the most assinine user-unfriendly POS I have seen since vi.
So your worst nightmare is that Microsoft will one day introduce MS Linux with, say, ribbon-enabled MS Vi 2012?
Ezekiel 23:20
Let's hope they have!
But, I wanted socialized health insurance!
Who? Who doesn't want to use the ribbon?
Too bad, everyone knows there is no alternative, only XUL.
table@diningroom:~ $ mv salt seat1 seat3
Expected magic word not found.
table@diningroom:~ $
Hah! True, but the theory behind Bob and Clippy is pretty advanced. It came from Brenda Laurel's analysis of human/computer interaction. Not from Melinda French's... sorry, my mind is simply refusing to imagine Bill Gates in a sexual situation.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
There is no Dana, only XUL.
>>>gt wth th txtng genrtn. & no i wnt gt off yr lwn
Shakespeare is dat u? I lovd ur ply. "O Romeo, denie thy Fathr: Vnto the white vpturned wondring eyes; Of mortalls that fall backe, When he bestrides the lazie puffing Cloudes, And sailes vpon the bosome of the ayre."
Brllint!
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
table@diningroom:~ $ sudo mv salt seat1 seat3
Salt move successful.
table@diningroom:~ $
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