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> If users go messing around in the important internals of the necessarily complex machine that is the browser then they deserve what problems they have. In sho

by aneth4 14y ago

> If users go messing around in the important internals of the necessarily complex machine that is the browser then they deserve what problems they have. In short: If you don't understand an advanced option, stay the fuck away from it. You've clearly never observed non-technical people using a new product. Telling users it's there fault doesn't generate revenue. Making your product idiot proof does.

Karunamon 14y ago
>Telling users it's there fault doesn't generate revenue. To be fair, there's only one browser right now that has "generate revenue" as a goal, and that's Chrome. And I, for one, am tired of being hamstrung by "idiot proofing". What ever happened to "if something is important to you, DON'T fuck around with it if you don't know what you're doing!" This is good life advice. What happens when you go mucking about in the internals of any sufficiently complex system without knowing what you're doing?
- r00fus 14y ago
  > To be fair, there's only one browser right now that has "generate revenue" as a goal, and that's Chrome. Completely untrue. Let's put it another way - the only browser out there not to "generate revenue", is Firefox (and even then it does generate a tidy amount from search referrals). Chrome - pushes Google services and ChromeOS. Safari - Apple-only. Nuff said. IE - the original bad-apple of browsers. Once it killed off it's competition (ie, web standards), team was disbanded. back on topic, perhaps the best answer is to provide a reset button or when erroring, provide actual locations to fix your issue (ie, the SSL disabled issue).
- aneth4 14y ago
  Maybe you're in the business or have a moral mission of providing life lessons to customers. I'm in the business of helping them avoid life lessons by having stuff behave as expected.
  - Karunamon 14y ago
    And it's considered "stuff not behaving as expected" that when you clear a box that says "display images" that images are no longer displayed? (One of the examples from TFA)

by aneth4 14y ago

Karunamon 14y ago

>Telling users it's there fault doesn't generate revenue. To be fair, there's only one browser right now that has "generate revenue" as a goal, and that's Chrome. And I, for one, am tired of being hamstrung by "idiot proofing". What ever happened to "if something is important to you, DON'T fuck around with it if you don't know what you're doing!" This is good life advice. What happens when you go mucking about in the internals of any sufficiently complex system without knowing what you're doing?

r00fus 14y ago
> To be fair, there's only one browser right now that has "generate revenue" as a goal, and that's Chrome. Completely untrue. Let's put it another way - the only browser out there not to "generate revenue", is Firefox (and even then it does generate a tidy amount from search referrals). Chrome - pushes Google services and ChromeOS. Safari - Apple-only. Nuff said. IE - the original bad-apple of browsers. Once it killed off it's competition (ie, web standards), team was disbanded. back on topic, perhaps the best answer is to provide a reset button or when erroring, provide actual locations to fix your issue (ie, the SSL disabled issue).
aneth4 14y ago
Maybe you're in the business or have a moral mission of providing life lessons to customers. I'm in the business of helping them avoid life lessons by having stuff behave as expected.
- Karunamon 14y ago
  And it's considered "stuff not behaving as expected" that when you clear a box that says "display images" that images are no longer displayed? (One of the examples from TFA)