Nice design document Nick! I have some remarks I would like to share, which I will explain later.
@Ian Fette > I've always wondered why the RSS feed icon was in the URL bar in Firefox. > How many of our users actually know what an RSS feed is, much less use it? > (I have a feeling that googlers are probably a biased sample). It's always > seemed like a pretty random thing that someone just decided to throw an icon > up for. I also grow concerned with too many things crowding the address bar > - it's really the only "trusted UI" we have anywhere. So, two questions: > 1. Does it really make sense to show the "RSS" icon for all users, or is > there a way to only have it show up for people who actually use RSS feeds? > (Not sure how to define those users, maybe we recognize that they have a > reader installed / registered / whatever?) > > 2. Does it really have to be *in* the address bar? > I believe we should go forward in the web, and feeds are part of it, it is nice to tell the user about RSS feeds. It is a perfect place on the address bar since you quickly know if this website has an RSS feed since its page related. Same thing applies for SSL, etc. @Ben Goodger > > RSS is kind of like bookmarking - it's bookmarking a page in your > reader, instead of in the browser. That's why this intersects with the > other design doc Nick posted about Bookmarklets that moved the Star. > We show an RSS icon in the location bar because it's page related That is what I think as well, it is bookmarking, but with live feeds. I personally like the bookmark to be on the left, it is less crowded and fits perfectly with the design. When we moved the star into the omnibar, it feels awkward cause my first intentions were that everything that is included inside the omnibar is page related, a bookmark is not page related (in my definition) it is user related. I treat feeds as bookmarks, and as I said before, its just a live bookmark. I have been constantly reading the Google Chrome user help forums, and many users are requesting RSS feeds. More than anything, I could even make a spreadsheet that describes that. Many users would like to view the XML, and to stay on Chromium theme look, why not make the Feed View feel the same way as the New Tab feel? I mocked up something really quickly that demonstrates what would be kinda cool, http://i44.tinypic.com/4hcav6.png , a lot of things could change. - m0 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
