IE UI Designer On His Switch To FireFox

wellington writes "Scott Berkun (who worked on UI design for Internet Explorer 1.0 thru 5.0) talked about why he switched to Firefox. In addition to five reasons why he switched, Scott also detailed five UI flaws in Firefox."

UI Flaw #6

[GreggyBUIUC]

It doesn't come packaged with XP

Borked

[Turbo6715]

I do love that at least my copy of Firefox completely destroyed the design of his web page. Either that or it's just really ugly, but what did I expect from an IE designer?

Re:My favorite reason

[jvalenzu]

As opposed to the 10 (binary) to run Linux on the desktop?

Re:Sweet error message in FF 1.5 beta

[Malc]

"If you're cool"

You are aware of which forum you're posting to aren't you?

Re:Sweet error message in FF 1.5 beta

[bad_outlook]

You^H^H^H I must be new here!

Re:Borked

[Zeussy]

Either that or it's just really ugly, but what did I expect from an IE designer?

My 1st thought when reading the topic was IE had a UI Designer? I never would of thought.

Re:Issue 3 and 5, and maybe 2, easily resolved

[ColourlessGreenIdeas]

It was quite obvious that that was a simple typo and I obviously meant 'use'. You're unjustly slandering me by suggesting that I'll randomly sue people for no good reason, and I have no choice but to take you to court to clear my name.

Re:UI suggestion

[Fred_A]

This is wasteful of Xs. It's not as if they grow on trees. Why do you think they have to sell Opera while Firefox is free ? All those X add up at the end of the year!

I bet you drive a SUV too...

Re:Who'

[Shakrai]

You'd rather memorize a zillion dinky eye squinting icons?

Yeah, but you can make them bigger if you use the ctrl key and the scroll wheel.

Oh, wait a minute...

Re:My favorite reason

[xaque]

Really? I'd be interested in meeting this other person. Do you have their email address?

Re:UI suggestion

[mollymoo]

Bad Slashdot.

Yeah, they really should implement some kind of 'Preview' function and put a message on the posting page mentioning it. If they put the button right next to 'Submit' nobody could possibly miss it

Re:My favorite reason

[jelle]

Ah, a TLA, well: you choose [wikipedia.org] which meaning you prefer.

I personally prefer Expanded Memory Specification [wikipedia.org], ah the memories.

Re:UI suggestion

[debiansid]

Am I the only one that uses the middle button?

YES!!

(reads other replies)

uhhh... am I the only one who DOESN'T use the middle button...