Interface usability has much more to do with improving the efficiency of the user. Which rarely means providing a dozen different options, when none of them actually make it more obvious to a new user how to perform a task.
Windows is _not_ to be taken as a shining example of good GUI design. It violates so many basic principles that I doubt usability (as opposed to the Wow Factor) is even taken very seriously in Redmond. Worse yet, OSS developers seem to take Windows' interface as something to strive for.
There is a some published work on how to produce good usable software -- both online and offline. Many geeks seem averse to learning about it though.
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I thought "we've reviewed" probably meant that they've written a review already, and "we'll be reviewing soon" means that /. will run said review soon.
English is such a wonderfully ambiguous language hey?
You don't mean I've wasted my time making this Apple // worm do you?
Usability does not mean customizability.
Interface usability has much more to do with improving the efficiency of the user. Which rarely means providing a dozen different options, when none of them actually make it more obvious to a new user how to perform a task.
Windows is _not_ to be taken as a shining example of good GUI design. It violates so many basic principles that I doubt usability (as opposed to the Wow Factor) is even taken very seriously in Redmond. Worse yet, OSS developers seem to take Windows' interface as something to strive for.
There is a some published work on how to produce good usable software -- both online and offline. Many geeks seem averse to learning about it though.
Actually I think Extensis (maybe?) actually had an implementation of a visual browser history, as an add-on to Netscape in the classic Mac OS.
This was forever ago however.