Comments on: Mozilla to Designers: Help Us Create the Future Web

By: Zach Beauvais

Zach Beauvais — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:53:17 +0000

I’ve just been trying the mozilla-cored app Songbird. Pretty cool. It leads me to wonder what else could be built on Mozilla platform? Image/data management—a la picasa— A kick-ass blogging client, CMS…

What else is there…

zachbeauvais.com

By: Ilija Studen

Ilija Studen — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:22:37 +0000

I love the move from gray boxes to more humane interfaces.

Josh already mentioned Expose. There are also Time Machine and Cover Flow as examples of successful interfaces for things most geeks would implement as gray boxes… They are different from most applications of their kind, but closer to our perception of reality - shifting through CDs vs a plan list of songs and moving through time vs “incremental backup system”.

By: http://www.Isquaretechnologies.com

http://www.Isquaretechnologies.com — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:07:38 +0000

@n0other: I don’t know how you mean by saying that these interfaces seem like nothing usable ?? It will be definitely very useful mate and these are just the Ideas for now and whenever they will implement it I am sure they will give the best and it will definitely help us to expose the information faster.
So I don’t think it is useless at all. Sorry but I am completely disagree with you

By: Josh Catone

Josh Catone — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:19:37 +0000

@n0other: I disagree. I think every one of the concepts above demonstrate ways of exposing information faster, improving organization, and enabling collaboration. In the case of Wei Zhou’s concept, her timeline approach to the history seems far simpler and more intuitive than the current implementation in most browsers. And adding context to bookmark and history items makes sense and could be very useful.

I don’t think these are necessarily just eye candy, in the way that the dock or Exposé in OS X aren’t eye candy — they look pretty, certainly, but it’s functional as well.

Of course, these are also just concepts. They’re just ideas. They’re a start and they’ll be refined before they ever get implemented (if they ever get implemented).

By: n0other

n0other — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:24:30 +0000

Innovation for the sake of innovation. Well, these interfaces seem like nothing useable, all these moving 3d toy effects would just annoy users and add nothing of value.

We hardly need a new look for a web browser, what we need is new ways of interaction, faster information reach. Operas’ idea of mouse gestures was a welcome change in the browser world and this sort of thing is what we need more.