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I have never seen a reason to use Netscape as opposed to Mozilla or Firefox, but I still find it interesting to take a peak at the Netscape version to come. Mozillazine provides us with a detailed look at the new Firefox based Netscape.
:: Sasha, at 05:00 pm on Sunday, 12. December 2004
Nice pix, inspiring story; Nice to see a good one survive
:: muttaga, at 09:54 pm on Sunday, 12. December 2004
I find it curious that the look-and-feel is inconsistent across UI components. The main window doesn't use the Windows title-bar style, but dialogues do.
Perhaps it will be fixed later, or perhaps no one will even care, but it seems to me that if an OS defines an interface look-and-feel that users grow accustomed to, it's only detrimental to deviate from this unless it's absolutely necessary---and making sure that the deviation is uniform and doesn't look tacked-on is only needless work.
That your browser -looks- different from the competition is just fluff; it doesn't matter for long-term use. It's all about how it performs. Since Navigator isn't bound to the just-the-necessary philosophy that Firefox employs, they can add any feature they damned well please, which is a much greater selling point than any cutesy green theme.
:: J. King, at 06:02 pm on Monday, 13. December 2004
(or, more to the point, a wildly unique or quirky look can attract users at first, but also push them away once the novelty wears off)
:: J. King, at 06:30 pm on Monday, 13. December 2004
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