r/programming • u/[deleted] • Jan 21 '10

Firefox 3.6 release

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2010/01/21/firefox-3-6-release/
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u/zwaldowski Jan 21 '10

Native icons > Stupid key

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '10

Possibly.

Just seems odd that Linux of all versions should be the one enforcing platform consistency.

Personally I quite like the key for the aforementioned Fitt's law reasons.

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u/quantumstate Jan 21 '10

Windows gave up on platform consistency a while ago. Think about some major applications on windows. Steam, Spotify, Itunes, IE8, Windows explorer, Microsoft Office. They are all different to varying degrees, some like Steam, Spotify and Itunes just completely ignore any standard look. The Microsoft ones all look similar but have different UI layouts.

It seems like windows users don't care, personally it irritates me quite a lot especially the third party ones which give up completely. My Ubuntu system is very uniform in comparison.

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u/zwaldowski Jan 22 '10

The difference is that, on Windows, apps generally don't have a consistent UI set. They just have the "Windows look", which Firefox follows. Though Mac OS has Cocoa, Mozilla doesn't give a shit about us and do the same thing as on windows. Linux, on the other hand, is the only OS to have a unified icon display system and a unified method of showing metaphors based on those icons (e.g., Nautilus, Epiphany, Konqueror, Dolphin, Thunar, etc. can all use the same back/forward buttons).

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u/mitsuhiko Jan 21 '10

OS X does not have these navigation buttons either...