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Hands-On With the Vivaldi Browser
justthinkit writes: Vivaldi is billing itself as the power user's browser, and Ars went hands-on with it today. They say, "Vivaldi has so many great features, but it can be a little frustrating because it is still very much a technical preview. It's been largely stable during testing (most of the bugs we encountered using the first release are gone in the second), but it's still missing some key features." It appears to have the cred, with Vivaldi's CEO being Jon S. von Tetzchner, the co-founder and former CEO of Opera. Does the thinking behind Vivaldi appeal to you? Do you plan to switch when it's more feature-complete?
That is a good thing.
I don't want my UI filled with useless shiny shit for children (and adults alike) with ADHD.
I don't want borders that are touch-screen friendly.
I don't want bastardized toolbars that aren't predictable. (Ribbon) (also touch-screen crap)
I don't want my GPU being used constantly, driving up power bills.
I don't want distractions and eye-rape. (borders and lines, borders and lines everywhere, let's not forget gradients)
I just want a UI that is intuitive, won't suddenly make my life harder, won't suddenly change, won't waste my power and DOESN'T GET IN THE WAY OF WHAT I AM DOING. NO I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR WARNING, GO AWAY, PLEASE. WHY DO I NEED TO CLICK OKAY, SURELY SPAMMING CLICKS OUTSIDE IN ANGER SHOULD BE A FEATURE OF A UI?! SHOUTING.
Winders 10 still looks guff though.
So you care about eye candy rather than technical features of software.
No, but I do care about ascetics, and I don't want my desktop to look like a 90's reject.
People like you are the reason GUI have become bloated pieces of shit
Nope. Lazy programmers are the reason for this.
--- Keep the choice with the user..
So now its wrong to want a UI that doesn't look like the dev took a Clevland Steamer on my screen? From the bottom of my heart fuck you, fuck the hipster douchebags that thought the shitastic fucking 90s was "retro cool" and so are trying their fucking damnedest to recreate Windows God Damned 2.0, the shitiest fucking tablets and Worst Buy special laptops have 200 times the power Windows 2.0 ran on so its more "how low can ya go?" dev circle jerking, and most of all it shows the devs (and anybody who supports that shit) is fucking ignorant because things like raised borders SERVE A PURPOSE, they show you what is clickable and what isn't. Wanna see what this shit flat shaded UI gets you? Yeah go look at Windows Mist8ke and see how quick that shit died,l you couldn't tell foreground from back, icon from picture, Windows 2.0 had better separation of elements!
So you can take that shit and shove it between your collection of Captain Planet and Power Rangers DVDs, the early 90s are NOT retro cool and eye sore flat shaded bullshit is not now, nor will it ever fucking be, popular!
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
I'd rather have as much functionality as I can from the developer of the browser itself. Extensions are helpful (particularly for obscure features that no browser developer would bother writing because the user base would be too small) but all to often they break more than they fix.
The obvious rebuttal is that features should be moved into official extensions. There is NO REASON WHATOSEVER why default Firefox should have debugging tools. The whole goddamn point of Firefox is that it is a platform, there should be no benefit to building any functionality in as opposed to adding it as an extension.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
The whole reason Firefox exists is because a group broke off and built it to remove the feature bloat in Mozilla/Netscape.
Officially-built/supported plugins would be the ideal way to solve this. Use internal devs who know the app inside and out, but serve it as an optional extension rather than an always-available feature requiring more memory to keep running.
I'm out of my mind right now, but feel free to leave a message.....