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I think it's a fools errand to try to make one browser for every single type of web browsing user on the planet. I use the browser a lot differently - web deve
by Fluxx 16y ago
I think it's a fools errand to try to make one browser for every single type of web browsing user on the planet. I use the browser a lot differently - web development, checking HTTP headers, etc - than my girlfriend does - browsing facebook and looking up clothes on the Anthropologie website.
Firefox + Firebug, Web Developers Toolbar + all my other extensions make it a wonderful browser for doing we development, but makes it _terrible_ (and slower) for doing casual browsing...which is why I'm not writing this comment in Firefox :)
The iPad does this exceptionally well. It did a great job of showing that while the laptop platform is a superset of all iPad functionality, it was the actual _platform_ (bigger hardware, short(er) battery life, needing mouse/trackpad, etc) that got in the way from the best user experience of consuming content.