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- SneakyNinja, on 08/06/2008, -0/+11I really like this idea and I'm excited to see where Mozilla ends up with this. It's nice to see a company open its arms to the community it serves instead of force feeding it like other software companies.
- kjd84, on 08/07/2008, -0/+5I love Mozilla!!!
I reckon Mozilla should make an OS designed around computing in the cloud! - ptFoe, on 08/07/2008, -0/+2The bookmarks feature is pretty cool
- affanjam, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1There are so many amazing web apps out now that, sooner or later OSs will just be web browsers. Most things that are possible on the desktop are now on the web. If Mozilla makes an OS now that would be everything i would need!
- laserluke, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1Mozilla is great, they really care about the user experience rather than just the money that goes in their pockets...
Those screens look great! The first one is a little too mac-esque however in my opinion tho...
I've been using mozilla firefox, thunderbird etc. since they were a little no name company and it is great to see how they have evolved over the years-- especially with the recent success of Firefox 3. - MikeFez, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1After viewing the Aurora concept video, i'm impressed. An interactive browser with location based features, manipulative data (As in, do what you want with your information, mix and match, ect.), this HAS to be the future of web browsing.
Link to the videos:
http://adaptivepath.com/aurora/ - habibcs, on 08/07/2008, -1/+2Idea: firefox special version -> which browse the web only from its own mozilla www-cloud ;p
Mozilla's very own www cloud -> own indexes -> own ads -> everythings own! woah! - nickbr00tality, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1Those mock ups actually look pretty sick
- habibcs, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1You should also be able to perceive what clouds are capable of and what that clouds setup can offer you that than what is understood with it.
You do have a google - web accelerator application - do not underestimate the idea.. - inactive, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1 Hopefully high on the list is a browser that plays all videos without me having to open up IE.
- inactive, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1 Does the same thing for me. Sometimes I have to copy the text and paste it elsewhere to edit it.
- jardinbleu, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1Good idea! I may even be more specific. I think Mozilla should take Linux, and build a cloud computing version of it. Just like they took Netscape code to build Firefox.
- 13373h4X0r, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Speaking of UI... Does anybody else have a difficult time editing comments in the text edit control here on Digg? I'm talking about editing the comment before pressing the "Save Comment" button. For me, with the latest Firefox 3 browser on Windows, and with the previous Firefox 2 browser, the text edit box on Digg for the "Add a Comment" section is nothing but pain! While editing, the text editing carat periodically (every second or so) hops to the end of the content of the text edit area. Naturally, this causes a big problem if one has written more than six lines of text and goes back to modify one of the earlier sentences.
Pressing the "Save Comment" button changes the properties of the text edit area somewhat -- and a vertical scroll bar appears, and the weird warping carat problem disappears. However, now one is committed to finishing all edits within 5 minutes. Sure, it's probably best to not spend more than a few minutes composing a comment, but sometimes it happens. It's lame to start the 5 minute countdown and then get caught with an incomplete or rough comment when the time expires.
Right now the bottom part of the text edit area is bobbing down and up by one line height every second, like a pulse...
The Javascript is obviously trying to do something "cool", but it's totally broken, and very not cool. Just show a scroll bar, just as when the comment is "saved" for editing. - 13373h4X0r, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Aurora looks like it was designed to encourage multi-tasking brain rot.
[ Research on effects of multi-tasking on the brain: http://www.ccbi.cmu.edu/news/SanDiegoUnionTribune- ... and http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1 ... ]
(I think Twitter and RSS contribute to brain drain, too, but that's a conversation for another time...)
I dislike the cloud of little thumbnails. While I think Apple had a good idea by having visual representations of processes on their task bar, I don't think extending that to a space of stuff is a good idea. Also, I think that circular pop-up context menu is lame.
Having said all of that, if there are people who do think that this new idea would fit with their way of thinking and interacting, then I guess the idea is a good thing. I simply can't imagine this being the case; but I acknowledge that I haven't actually tried such a system. Maybe I'd get used to it and find it quite intuitive and handy. It's just hard to believe at first glance that it wouldn't forever just be a pain to navigate.
I'm glad people are exploring new ideas for user interfaces. Apple, for example, has profited greatly from its commitment to creating user interfaces that are easy to use. Similarly, online services that invest a lot in making a visitor's experience easy, productive, and fun have benefited from their investments. I think there's a lot of room for improvement, but sometimes the ideas people come up with are confusing, ugly, or terribly inconvenient. We won't be flying through 3D worlds to access documents and other kinds of information; that was simply Hollywood's way of telling us that we're seeing "the future". Sure, user interfaces are already benefiting from 3D drawing, but the interface elements that are likely to represent breakthroughs (just as inventing "sliders", "scrollbars", "check boxes", "radio buttons", "windows", "text edit" controls, etc, were breakthroughs compared to DOS) are likely to simply be better visual metaphors for the underlying actions. Things like the "tree control" really made a difference. The ability to drag a map around in Google Maps is a clever and intuitive way to view the map; it's exactly what someone would do with a giant paper map; and that dragging provides a very physical-like connection between the user's action and the response on the screen. The multi-touch method of magnifying or reducing items on the iPhone screen is likewise simple and intuitive. Anyhow, the Windows and Apple desktops have many GUI elements that have been battle tested and have proven themselves comprehensible and useful. I look forward to one day being amazed by a new GUI element that is so ingenious as to seem at once obvious and directly connected to our way of thinking. I didn't get that instinctive feeling of obviousness and basic connection when I watched the video for the Aurora concept, but maybe it's something that you first get used to and THEN realize how awesome it is. That kind of thing happens sometimes. - Apocalyptic0n3, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0You have no idea what cloud computing is, do you?
- inactive, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0In my opinion they need to [almost] completely ignore non-coders. Then make a browser that doesn't crash daily.
- positron, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0It would seem to me that they care about the user experience BECAUSE they care about the money that goes in their pockets.
- SteveMax, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Unfortunately, 90% of the people who use the term "cloud computing" also have no idea what it is.
- proficient, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Certainly there can be no major ill effects from this - the more ideas thrown together, the better, it would seem.
- WardOnTheWeb, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Requirements gathering with end users? What a novel concept... ;)
- inactive, on 08/07/2008, -1/+0so u mean like the ridiculous amount of GPL software groups out there that do the same thing ?
- inactive, on 08/07/2008, -1/+0haha, one word for you "latency"
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