A few days ago, Apple surprised everyone by releasing the first beta of Safari 4, the company's latest version of their WebKit browser. While I generally love Safari on the Mac (my browser of choice on that side of the fence), I've never felt as comfortable with it on the Windows side of things. In any case, this latest beta has made a very bold move in the interface department, and I'm sad to say that it's not for the better. Let me explain where it went wrong for Apple.
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Member since:2007-12-16
I'm sure they've thought of that one too at Apple's. There's just that one problem: it's shit.
I myself never had any problems adapting to the new model. It's clear as sky, the tab bar's gone but there's a new grabber in the corner of one. My only problem with it is it brings distortion to the before so elegant and clean OS X interface. So much buttons and stuff in the title bar. Well, I don't actually even own a Mac yet so no big deal.
If I was a Windows-user, I'd use Chrome. Safari doesn't look that good. Plus I don't use nor need a graphical history so the eye-candy doesn't catch me.
Member since:2006-12-15
If I was a windows user, I'd find chrome unusable. The interface is horrid. Looks like a bunch of 6th graders designed it way back in 1988. I installed it this weekend, and there are no saving graces in the UI. Honestly don't understand what the stink is about as I have far more problems with Chrome's interface than I do Apple's.
Problems I have with Chrome Tabs: 1. When the tabs stack up there is no quick way to see a listing of all tabs. 2. Depending on the number of tabs and the horizontal width of the window, the tabs can quickly become unusable as you don't know what they contain (see point 1). 3. The vertical target to drag/move a window is small. Apple's solution retains the vertical target size while still providing a large horizontal target, even when tabs are at their minimum width. 4. Chrome's interface and color scheme makes my eyes bleed.
To me it looks like Apple put far more thought into their implementation than the summer interns at Google did.
Not saying Apple's interface is perfect, but if I had to choose between the two, I'd pick Apple's. Though I'd probably keep using Firefox or Opera, to be honest.
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2009-03-02
I had the same idea today. It's illustrated here: http://ezrakatz.net/ezra/tiki-view_blog_post.php?blogId=3&postId=11...
Edited 2009-03-02 04:50 UTC