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From: "hyatt@mozilla" <rssfeeds@spamassassin.taint.org>
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Subject: Missing the Point
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Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:27:40 -0000
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URL: http://www.mozillazine.org/weblogs/hyatt/#85471617
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Date: Not supplied
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A lot of people seem to be missing the point of Phoenix, as evidenced by the
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responses on Mozilla News[1] and MozillaZine[2]. Let me emphasize something
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here: if you think Mozilla's current UI is acceptable, then you are clearly not
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the target audience for Phoenix.
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Here is a quiz to test whether or not Phoenix is the right browser for you.
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- The link toolbar is:
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- critical to my day-to-day use
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- vital when using Bugzilla! Doesn't everybody use Bugzilla?
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- link what?
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- The sidebar is
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- indispensable since i run at 1600x1200 resolution
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- not cool enough, since i can't float and dock all my panels and have
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splitters between all panels and see web page progress for individual HTML
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panels and check my email entirely from within sidebar and...
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- a waste of real estate
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- Form auto-fill
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- is not useful for me unless I can fill out 20 pages of personal information
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first
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- should just happen automatically
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- Downloads
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- should take place in a tree view with progress meters in the columns!
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- should be clearly visible and understandable.
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- Toolbars should
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- be dockable to all four corners of the screen, be able to float outside the
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window, be fully customizable such that I can make my own custom commands, be
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able to edit existing buttons' commands, be able to create my own toolbars, be
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able to put toolbars on the same line, and be able to edit the submenus and
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context menus of items (including the items on the menu bar) and browse my file
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system and cook me dinner and wash my car and walk my dog and do my taxes and
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mow my lawn and...
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- be customizable within reason
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- Composer should
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- always come with my browser. I want composer options all over my UI.
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Everywhere!
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- not be part of a Web browser.
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- Mail should
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- be part of my browser program. Aren't they the same app? There is a
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difference?
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- be a separate application.
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Now to those people who want the full-blown functionality of the Mozilla trunk,
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you can still get that with Phoenix. The idea is to relegate more features to
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the "optional add-on" category. If you want the link toolbar or the sidebar or
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mouse gestures or any other features, you can download and install them
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yourself. I expect Phoenix will have a little add-in manager that will
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facilitate this process. There is currently an expectation on the part of an
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alarming number of people that every feature implemented by anyone should
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automatically be part of the default Mozilla install/download.
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Why?
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A layered approach scales better. You can then have a browser that can become
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as complex as you want to make it, but the choice is left in your hands. The
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geek features aren't inflicted on you by default.
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Finally, remember that Phoenix's UI is not controlled by Netscape. This is an
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opportunity for some of the core Mozilla Navigator developers to build the
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browser that they have always wanted to build, without having to compromise the
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user interface to satisfy the various conflicting pressures exerted by factions
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within Netscape.
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[1] http://www.mozillanews.org
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[2] http://www.mozillazine.org
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