Browsers (Was: A very basic blog about D)

Adam D. Ruppe destructionator at gmail.com
Tue Jul 16 07:22:46 PDT 2013


On Tuesday, 16 July 2013 at 00:26:51 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> Vista doesn't have that horrible MS Dock taskbar

Worth noting you can turn that off: I have 7 on the laptop I'm on 
now and after a few settings changes, it is very similar to 
vista. To get a good taskbar you need to turn off the group 
similar windows function (which I hated when it was introduced in 
XP anyway).

Your quick launch still keeps their place but that doesn't bug me 
like I thought it would, it is actually kinda nice.

> window screenshots *every* freaking time your mouse goes near

Oh yeah, that is annoying. I hate hover things in general. The 
worst of them is on websites. My bank website used to have hover 
menus right above the login thing...

So I go to the address bar and type in my bank dot com. Then i 
move the mouse down toward the login form and click it.... but 
oops, on the way down, I hovered over the stupid menu, so now by 
click is redirecting me to some new site! AAAARGGGTHHHH!

The taskbar thing is similarly annoying but at least it pops up 
above, so you are less likely to accidentally click it in 
transit. Though I have many times clicked one window then went up 
and clicked another window because it popped up. God I hate hover 
crap.


> I do actually like a lot of the ribbon stuff though. I don't 
> see what the big problem is

It's different. I still haven't really figured out the new Paint 
UI. I don't think it sucks, but it does take some getting used to.

> Interesting. I wonder why exactly that is.

IIRC it was because a lot of browsers clear cache on close, or 
the cache expired too soon.


> Hmm, yea, that's not too bad, although I have found Linux FF 
> tends to have a better default UI (that is, matches the system 
> better) than Windows FF anyway.

Yes, I agree. And even there, I had to do an about:config thing 
to kill the unified back/forward nonsense.

On Windows, firefox can look ok by doing the same adjustments, 
but one thing that still annoys me is that there's a weird shadow 
thing behind the menu. It isn't too bad but just seems pointless.

> and so does the unified "stop/reload"

Oh yeah, that's annoying. But the keyboard is a bit better there, 
f5+esc are easy to hit and more reliable anyway.

> Remember the old Sega GameGear's crappy LCD?

lol I actually liked it because it was backlit! Ate through 
batteries like mad but it was usable in varied lighting 
conditions.

> Screen size makes much more of a difference on PS3 than 
> resolution. Probably at least 95% of PS3 games I've tried
> include text that's so damn *small* that's it's barely
> readable on even a 29" set

Yes, I can barely even read it on my friend's larger tv in the 
call of duty game (especially when we play split screen, no point 
even trying to read the score, 8, 3, and 11 all look the same to 
me at those sizes)


> Really HD is only a moderate improvement if you compare
> it to a *real* SD set instead of "SD on an HD set".

Aye. And even so, meh. I was called a troll a while ago because 
somebody on youtube did a cgi remake of some Star Trek 2 scenes, 
and I said my old VHS copy looked better.

But it did. The cgi artist did a fine job, sure, but the original 
director and model makers did a *better* job and the VHS captured 
it just fine. (One thing I think the cgi artist missed was the 
deliberate angles and coloring choices the director made in the 
original movie, to get across the contrast of hero and villain. 
If you've seen the movie, you might remember what I mean - the 
Enterprise was often shot with bluer light and taller angles (if 
that's the right term), making it look more good and innocent, 
whereas the Reliant had low angles and redder lights to look 
menacing - a perfect fit for the scene. The cgi artist had 
bazillion polygons but didn't capture the same atmosphere.

Then there were things that just looked silly, like cgi smoke. 
Bah, the original effects were kinda cheesy too but I bought 
them. Maybe thanks to the actors but still, my old tape looked 
fine whatever the reason.)




> That's strange. I wonder if maybe you're one of those people 
> that's sensitive to the subtle flicker in backlights.

Maybe, but the lcd computer screen doesn't bug me the same. idk.


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