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Ok, so it's eye candy and the built-in dictionary from what I can make out from your post. I agree with the dictionary, the icon and to some degree the right c

by DeepDuh 14y ago

Ok, so it's eye candy and the built-in dictionary from what I can make out from your post. I agree with the dictionary, the icon and to some degree the right click menu - two of those features I hardly use however. The toolbar looks just fine for me, I don't need uniform toolbar styles over all my apps. iTunes, for example, breaks the OSX style as well and it's an Apple app. Graphically Chrome looks much cleaner to me than Safari, but I guess that's all subjective. I have to say though, that they did some graphical updates lately I don't agree with at all - noticeably the removal of the "plus" icon on the new tab button as well as the change of the tools button icon from a recognizable wrench (or whatever it was) to a generic list icon.

tambourine_man 14y ago
Graphically Chrome looks much cleaner to me than Safari, but I guess that's all subjective. Safari's only color is the favicon of the current selected tab. Chrome shows all tabs favicons, plus a ”blue folder” for every bookmark folder and white document for every bookmarklet. And the shades of gray are different from anything else on the system, and vary all over the place like crazy (Rollover, background tab vs foreground, etc). Safari's toolbar, on the other hand is a single gray gradient from top to bottom.
- DeepDuh 14y ago
  And that's important because? What makes Chrome look cleaner to me is mostly the number of strong horizontal / vertical lines I have to orient my eyes at - and in what order those lines appear. In chrome I see First line = bottom border of OSX menu bar Second line = top border of tab Oh look, here is the content I'm looking for, website icon plus website title -> nice. In Safari: First line = bottom border of menu bar Second line = top border of URL bar Nothing of interest here, I know which site I'm at right now Third line = bottom border of URL bar fourth line = bottom border of toolbar Ok, now I see tabs. But NO ICON! It's very hard to make out the different websites I have open.
89a 14y ago
Not just the dictionary but all built in OS X cocoa niceties (of which the dictionary is one but only a small part of it) suffer in highly custom UIs like Chrome

by DeepDuh 14y ago

tambourine_man 14y ago

Graphically Chrome looks much cleaner to me than Safari, but I guess that's all subjective. Safari's only color is the favicon of the current selected tab. Chrome shows all tabs favicons, plus a ”blue folder” for every bookmark folder and white document for every bookmarklet. And the shades of gray are different from anything else on the system, and vary all over the place like crazy (Rollover, background tab vs foreground, etc). Safari's toolbar, on the other hand is a single gray gradient from top to bottom.

DeepDuh 14y ago
And that's important because? What makes Chrome look cleaner to me is mostly the number of strong horizontal / vertical lines I have to orient my eyes at - and in what order those lines appear. In chrome I see First line = bottom border of OSX menu bar Second line = top border of tab Oh look, here is the content I'm looking for, website icon plus website title -> nice. In Safari: First line = bottom border of menu bar Second line = top border of URL bar Nothing of interest here, I know which site I'm at right now Third line = bottom border of URL bar fourth line = bottom border of toolbar Ok, now I see tabs. But NO ICON! It's very hard to make out the different websites I have open.

89a 14y ago

Not just the dictionary but all built in OS X cocoa niceties (of which the dictionary is one but only a small part of it) suffer in highly custom UIs like Chrome