mabye this could become incorporated into the XLink standard. Using javascript (as previous people have done) seems quite barbaric to me and it looses it's semantics and breaks horribly in a few browsers. Using CSS (what this example does) works well but, surprise, surprise! it doesn't work in IE and it still doesn't quite have the proper semantics.
Now we know that Darwin was wrong, at least about Windows.
It looks like like windows XP, with a few 'features':
1) transparency: you can't actually see the stuff behind there because it's all blured out, kind of ruin any productivity benefits.
2) the 'x' button: they should have learned from Netscape 8. It is a well known usability issue that the best place to have important buttons is in the corner. http://www.zen9361.zen.co.uk/mgs/usability.html
3) consistant gui: I won't say linux or OSX is perfect here, but Longhorn looks downright terrible.
Computer Management (image 2): combines the longhorn window buttons with the 9x style buttons (btw, what are the 9x buttons doing there anyway, is that supposed to have multiple tabs or something?)
Windows Media Player (bottom): doesn't have transparency, plus the buttons are in the old position. Seriouly what are you guys trying to do to poor grandma? I thought the WMP in XP was screwed up badly enough.
IE7: don't get me started on this one. I think the others at slashdot have already outlined why only AOL could make an uglier program.
If this is was the native microsoft apps look like what are my 3rd party XP apps going to look like!
Why on earth ANYONE would use the JSF for personal transportation is beyond me.
I'd just like to note that people don't use military fighters for personal transportation. Also, no one in there right mind would take a jet fighter to pick up the groceries, or go to the movie theater. When it comes down to the right tool for the job, a broken donkey cart is probably better than a jet fighter.
That said there are linux distros that are plenty user fiendly. For me an ubuntu install takes about 1-2 hours (and most of it doesn't require supervision), while a windows install is more like 5 hours.
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mabye this could become incorporated into the XLink standard. Using javascript (as previous people have done) seems quite barbaric to me and it looses it's semantics and breaks horribly in a few browsers. Using CSS (what this example does) works well but, surprise, surprise! it doesn't work in IE and it still doesn't quite have the proper semantics.
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n.b. I would have linked the authors website, but it's not responding.
Now we know that Darwin was wrong, at least about Windows.
It looks like like windows XP, with a few 'features':
1) transparency: you can't actually see the stuff behind there because it's all blured out, kind of ruin any productivity benefits.
2) the 'x' button: they should have learned from Netscape 8. It is a well known usability issue that the best place to have important buttons is in the corner. http://www.zen9361.zen.co.uk/mgs/usability.html
3) consistant gui: I won't say linux or OSX is perfect here, but Longhorn looks downright terrible.
Computer Management (image 2): combines the longhorn window buttons with the 9x style buttons (btw, what are the 9x buttons doing there anyway, is that supposed to have multiple tabs or something?)
Windows Media Player (bottom): doesn't have transparency, plus the buttons are in the old position. Seriouly what are you guys trying to do to poor grandma? I thought the WMP in XP was screwed up badly enough.
IE7: don't get me started on this one. I think the others at slashdot have already outlined why only AOL could make an uglier program.
If this is was the native microsoft apps look like what are my 3rd party XP apps going to look like!
I'd just like to note that people don't use military fighters for personal transportation. Also, no one in there right mind would take a jet fighter to pick up the groceries, or go to the movie theater. When it comes down to the right tool for the job, a broken donkey cart is probably better than a jet fighter.
That said there are linux distros that are plenty user fiendly. For me an ubuntu install takes about 1-2 hours (and most of it doesn't require supervision), while a windows install is more like 5 hours.
There a bug on it. It hasn't exactly been forgotten, but I don't know if anything has been done on it yet.