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On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 03:18:27PM -0500, Luke A. Kanies wrote: > ... > > So, I tried konquerer. I didn't actually know that Firefox had > anti-aliasing until I looked at konquerer -- do you have any idea how > absolutely hideous HTML looks on a 1280x1024 LCD when it's not > anti-aliased? I didn't know either, but now I do. Ugh. Oh, but > they're going to have it RSN! Yay!!!!!! Uh, yeah. I don't have antialiased fonts either (except for Japanese text, which sometimes, if the wind blows to the east and I burn a black candle, turns out nicely). I think my problem is using Debian, which expects you to have imtimate knowledge of X and font rendering systems and be willing to spend weeks fiddling with fontconfig to get things right. > So, I tried Opera. I might give this one a bit more of a try, but... > I admire what they're trying to do here (make some money by providing > a good browser) but none of my instincts work (no ^L for going to the > address bar, for instance), they think the F keys are for them whereas > I consider them to be for my personal shortcuts, not applications, and > they don't appear to have a status bar. Safari defaults to not having > one, but at least you can make it appear (they really should default > to having it), and although this isn't very hateful, Safari gives you > extra information in it like whether a link is to a new window or in > the same window. WTF don't all status bars do this? I remember being really impressed by the "(new window)" bit in Konq three years ago, but I've not yet seen it in Mozilla-based browsers. I've recently found some cryptic CSS code on some website that I can copy in to a file somewhere to make the cursor change when a link will open in a new window. Should I really have to arse around like this to get a basic usability feature? And every Mozilla-based browser I've tried has problems with the status bar (Mozilla, Galeon, Firefox). It usually tells you what URL a link points to, except when it doesn't like the link, or when it's a bit grumpy, or something. Then it tells you that it's loading some webpage you looked at ages ago in a different tab, or just goes blank. It can't be believed. > ... > > Oh, and I just found that Opera has decided (like IE) that standard > mouse operations in text boxes don't apply in browser text boxes. > Double click means select a _word_ not all of the text. Why go > changing UI that's been standard for 20 years? It will just make me > hate you. Hate hate hate. Didn't you know that web browsers are super special? Everything you thought you knew about graphical user interfaces was wrong. This is the age of the interweb! -- --- Geoff Richards -------------><-------------- http://ungwe.org/ --- "I tried to fling my shadow at the moon, The while my blood leapt with a wordless song." -- Theodore RoethkeThere's stuff above here
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