On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 00:26, Mike Belshe <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Darin Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Do websites provide users with previous versions after overhauling their >> UX? Some do (gmail seems to), but most do not. You just get to surf the >> latest. Hopefully, the website changes for the better. That's our burden >> to bear. > > > I suspect it has to do with apps that contain your personal information > (web history, contacts, email, etc). Users come to expect their information > is found in certain places, and when you change that around, you can > alienate some users. I suspect that is why GMail has backward compatible > UIs but sites like CNN do not. > Gmail still has the old UI for browsers that are too slow and does not support the required features. Like Ben said --old-new-tab-page was there during the transition and should be removed (I volunteer). The NTP can also be totally* replaced using extensions so one way to cater to these few but vocal users is to redirect them to extensions. * The extension system does not yet have access to all the needed data to rebuild the current NTP. > > It sounds like Alice and others will figure out if there is something that > needs to change. > > Mike > > > >> >> -Darin >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Mike Belshe <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I just got a fairly angry email from my sister about the new tab page UI. >>> She writes: >>> >>>> "What’s up with the Chrome Tab page change? I thought I screwed up my >>>> page at home, but now my page at work has changed too. >>> >>> I don’t like it. >>> >>> Why do I have to have my tabs arranged 4x2 ? I liked 3x3. >>> >>> What happened to the delete tabs? >>> >>> Do we get no say in what our page looks like? Google just gets to make >>> the change without so much as a notice, “Your page has changed for the >>> worse”. >>> >>> Sorry to dump on you but, it sure is nice thinking that I can gripe to >>> someone at a giant company like Google and there actually might be someone >>> listening." >>> >>> >>> This is probably a good point; why didn't we offer a "classic view" >>> option to users? It is not like the current new-tab-page is all that >>> radically different. I'm sure we were aware that some users would feel this >>> way? But we think we know better than they do what this page should look >>> like? >>> >>> BTW - I liked 3x3 better than 4x2 better too. >>> >>> >>> Mike >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > > > > -- erik --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
