On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Chris G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 20, 6:29 pm, "Peter Kasting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I didn't mean that they were different HTML (although they can be), but > > rather that users perceive them as having different functions. > > This perception is what I (we) should challenge!!
Challenging user perceptions is rarely a better idea than working with them. > I am totally willing to learn a new way of how to do what I need, But most users are not. So to cope without typing, Why rule out typing? I can type a single character and hit enter faster than I can target a bookmark. Perhaps this is a good example of turnabout: _my_ normal workflow (typing) doesn't seem to be yours. My point is something like bookmarks that are used so much By you. Not by everyone. (Says both our metrics data and anecdotal experience.) It is very, very hard to design a UI that works for everyone's workflow. Bookmarks are not a part of the normal workflow for a large fraction of users. Tying login to them is not going to fly. With today's new touch UIs we should avoid different > functions for different mouse buttons! I admire your willingness to challenge pretty much every UI convention, but normally working _with_ the OS and user expectations is a better move. Right-click in Windows apps is here to stay. I would also float the idea of a normal > click opening the bookmark list, and a long click doing its current > function of creating/editing a bookmark. No. It's obvious you really want to help make Chromium better, but I don't think the ideas you're proposing are the best ways to do it. We're currently working on both bookmark and form filling improvements. Perhaps after we get those checked in, and maybe also when we have an extension system, it will make sense to revisit some of these to see if any of your problems have been addressed, or if your ideas would make sense as extensions. PK --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
