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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.
...how about a random BSOD option for Firefox also.
Table-ized A.I.
Hells to the no.
A Good Troll is better than a Bad Human.
Get a better IT guy that can learn and adapt? Seriously, the ribbon took me only a few tries to figure out.
Best. Seinfeld reference. Evar.
Linux can look like anything including but not limited to various generations of Windows, MacOS, NeXT and BeOS.
Sadly, however, it rarely _works_ like them.
because the menu is one click move mouse (to read the menu, not once dialog windows get involved).
The ribbon is 2 clicks, fairly distant, with the second one on a very small button, for each menu heading.
This is ludicrously pedantic. I doubt you could even measure the difference in time it takes for one vs the other with a stopwatch, and even if you could it certainly wouldn't be significant.
Or someone could use the ribbons as toolbars, but turn on the menu when they wanted to search though the menu.The thing is that the Ribbon already behaves essentially the same way as a menu, if you're "hunting around".
But Chrome DOES use a ribbon menu.... I don't know if you are a dumb fuck though. That said if you are an extremely attractive woman I'd be willing to evaluate.
>>>Something being intuitive is not what you describe it to be. It is the ability of a system to be learned and adapted to quickly.
In that case Ribbon == epic fail.
>>>potential future touch screen displays
Another bad idea. That last thing I want to do is spend 12 hours a day (at work and home) waving my arms at a screen. Talk about wearing yourself out! I'm lazy and prefer the use of a mouse which can be used with minimal exertion.
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