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I think that alert's design is actually a _feature_. Safari made a similar change a while back not make the alerts look like system UI, to prevent phishing and

I think that alert's design is actually a _feature_. Safari made a similar change a while back not make the alerts look like system UI, to prevent phishing and similar attacks.

reaperducer 7y ago
Ah, I wondered why that was done. Thanks for the light bulb.
pier25 7y ago
My point is not that it doesn't look native... It's a neglected part of the UI.
- gmanley 7y ago
  The person you responded to specifically explained that. It's made to look non-native on purpose so that users don't think a pop-up, phishing, asking for their password, is a native system prompt. Safari did the same thing. It's not that it's neglected, quite the opposite, actually.
  - pier25 7y ago
    The Safari alert doesn't look native and yet it looks polished. https://imgur.com/rvsjJtO https://imgur.com/rvsjJtO
    - gmanley 7y ago
      Personally, I don't think the Firefox version looks any worse than the Safari version, they're just different. It comes down to preference. Just like you saying it's the ugliest tab bar which I very much disagree with.
      - pier25 7y ago
        Sure, aesthetics is ultimately a subjective thing, but that's not what I'm saying.
        gmanley 7y ago
        It's not? That's exactly how I've been interpreting it. Objectively, how is the Safari version better? Other than subjective design.
        pier25 7y ago
        When I say polished I don't mean a polished visual style in an aesthetic sense. What I mean is that a designer has put some work on a UI element and after some iterations there has been a conscious decision over why an element looks the way it looks. For example, one of the major considerations when doing UI design is creating elements that have a cohesive style (regardless of which aesthetic style that is). None of that happened on that god forgotten alert. It's probably the first thing that someone came up with in a rush, in a style that no other UI element of FF shares, and it has stayed like this probably because nobody cares.
saagarjha 7y ago
That and I believe the new modal prevents locking up the entire browser.

I think that alert's design is actually a _feature_. Safari made a similar change a while back not make the alerts look like system UI, to prevent phishing and similar attacks.

reaperducer 7y ago

Ah, I wondered why that was done. Thanks for the light bulb.

pier25 7y ago

My point is not that it doesn't look native... It's a neglected part of the UI.

gmanley 7y ago
The person you responded to specifically explained that. It's made to look non-native on purpose so that users don't think a pop-up, phishing, asking for their password, is a native system prompt. Safari did the same thing. It's not that it's neglected, quite the opposite, actually.
- pier25 7y ago
  The Safari alert doesn't look native and yet it looks polished. https://imgur.com/rvsjJtO https://imgur.com/rvsjJtO
  - gmanley 7y ago
    Personally, I don't think the Firefox version looks any worse than the Safari version, they're just different. It comes down to preference. Just like you saying it's the ugliest tab bar which I very much disagree with.
    - pier25 7y ago
      Sure, aesthetics is ultimately a subjective thing, but that's not what I'm saying.
      - gmanley 7y ago
        It's not? That's exactly how I've been interpreting it. Objectively, how is the Safari version better? Other than subjective design.
        pier25 7y ago
        When I say polished I don't mean a polished visual style in an aesthetic sense. What I mean is that a designer has put some work on a UI element and after some iterations there has been a conscious decision over why an element looks the way it looks. For example, one of the major considerations when doing UI design is creating elements that have a cohesive style (regardless of which aesthetic style that is). None of that happened on that god forgotten alert. It's probably the first thing that someone came up with in a rush, in a style that no other UI element of FF shares, and it has stayed like this probably because nobody cares.

saagarjha 7y ago

That and I believe the new modal prevents locking up the entire browser.