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I just wish Firefox wasn't coping iOS. Slide open, 4 x 4 grid with a dock, swipe between panes. It's just sad that companies think this is the 'standard' for an

• bryanlarsen 14y ago
  Why don't you criticize Toyota for using a circular steering wheel and similar feeling clutches, brake pedals and gas padels while you're at it? Slide open: given a large touch screen, what's the easiest interaction that has a low likelihood of being accidental? panes: there are basically two possible metaphors that work well: paged or infinite scrolling. Is it copying if random chance would have a 50% chance of choosing the same answer? swipe between panes: given a paged screen, what gesture but the same one used for turning pages in a book makes any sense at all? 4x4 grid: given a 3-4" screen and given an icon the size of a human thumb, how many icons fit? dock: given a paged, gridded metaphor and a need to have the most commonly used functions always available, does anything make any sense but to keep a set of icons pinned and visually distinct? Sure, they could have moved them to the top or to the side or to the middle or something, but that's just change for the sake of change.