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Dear IE, I'm leaving you for good (ZDNet)Dear IE, I'm leaving you for good (ZDNet)Posted Nov 14, 2004 5:17 UTC (Sun) by horen (subscriber, #2514)In reply to: Dear IE, I'm leaving you for good (ZDNet) by madscientist Parent article: Dear IE, I'm leaving you for good (ZDNet)
"...and best of all (she says) even though it's open source it is extremely polished and professional looking and acting." I'd like to remind people that, despite its (almost) universally accepted status as a crappy and "BOFH" browser, IE does have an equally accepted status as an example of outstanding "look-and-feel" -- if nothing else, millions of potential Firefox users in the short-term are, now, comfortably familiar and functional with IE's GUI. Therefore, I'd like to also remind people that Chris Cook's "Luna Blue Theme for Firefox" gives a spot-on rendition of the Windows XP look-and-feel for IE, for the GNU/Linux version of Firefox. Make it even that much easier for your friends, family, and users to "do the right thing!"
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Dear IE, I'm leaving you for good (ZDNet) Posted Nov 15, 2004 4:37 UTC (Mon) by jamesh (subscriber, #1159) [Link] Be careful about trying to make a Linux desktop look identical to Windows. For example, Siemens did a study on Linux desktop usability that found that users had problems when presented something that looked like Windows but didn't act like Windows. When presented with something less Windows-like, they had different expectations and were able to adapt better. You might find the same is true for Firefox. By making the user interface look more like IE, are users going to find it easier to use, or will they be less likely to adapt when Firefox's behaviour differs from IE's?
Dear IE, I'm leaving you for good (ZDNet) Posted Nov 15, 2004 11:59 UTC (Mon) by mdekkers (guest, #85) [Link] I recently deployed a linux desktop that has a 100% Windows 2000 look and feel, and we did not find that at all -- the only problem we ran into was unexpected midlle mouse button behaviour (paste) and we xmod-mapped that away. However, this is a pretty much tightly locked down desktop.
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