From: Earle Martin Date: 17:59 on 20 Jul 2004 Subject: Firefox: Tools->Options? Or Edit->Preferences? Place your bets now! Want to change your browser settings? I hope you've read the GNOME human interface guidelines, no, wait, I mean the KDE guidelines, no, Windows, no, MacOS X... http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=245765 Yes, I just upgraded to Firefox 0.91, and was surprised to find that Tools->Options no longer exists. Heaven help those people who might want to write help text about changing browser settings and want to cater to Firefox users. Argh. Hate.
From: Yoz Grahame Date: 18:11 on 20 Jul 2004 Subject: Re: Firefox: Tools->Options? Or Edit->Preferences? Place your bets now! On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:59:25 +0100, Earle Martin <hates-software@xxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > Want to change your browser settings? I hope you've read the GNOME human > interface guidelines, no, wait, I mean the KDE guidelines, no, Windows, no, > MacOS X... > > http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=245765 > > Yes, I just upgraded to Firefox 0.91, and was surprised to find that > Tools->Options no longer exists. > > Heaven help those people who might want to write help text about changing > browser settings and want to cater to Firefox users. True, but this is thoroughly argued out here: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=245862 ... and I have to agree that there are good arguments either way but that consistency with the OS's HIG spec is more important. Think of it this way: It makes writing such help text a little more difficult (and only a little, really) but also lowers the probability that a user will need that help text at all. -- Yoz
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