Re: [Usability] Tab consistency

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On Mar 31, 2007, at 8:30 AM, Alan Horkan wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> ...
> > On Mar 30, 2007, at 10:55 AM, Alan Horkan wrote:
> > > ...
> > > Given the giant mess Firefox made of their Preferences dialog,
> > > changing it though several iterations during their 1.x cycle and
> > > flushing down the toilet years of techincal support Netscape built 
> > > up,
> >
> > Oh come now.
>
> Eh, full disclosure, shouldn't you make your background/bais better 
> known if you are sure you want to continue this discussion?

Background/bias disclosure statement: I had nothing to do with either 
of the designs in question.

(I designed some details of the advanced Fonts and JavaScript settings 
for the Mozilla suite, but those ended up roughly the same in Firefox 
anyway.)

> Usability has to occasionaly weigh up the cost of change against other 
> factors like techincal support.
> ...

Agreed. It's a shame that, for example, the route to the proxy settings 
has changed between Firefox 1 and 2. But both of them were hugely 
better than Netscape in that regard.

Cheers
--
Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/