Why Free Software usability tends to suck; what's wrong with Mozilla 1.0
Posting im mpt Mozilla Weblog von Matthew Thomas, Entwickler des Mozilla User Interface. Ebenfalls dort: The top ten usability problems in Mozilla. Recommended reading.
David Hyatt präzisiert in seinem Weblog Confessions of a Mozillian: "Mozilla is now very close to releasing 1.0 of its browser suite, and as that day draws closer, the self-examinations and post-mortems are kicking into high gear. What did we get right? What did we do wrong? [...] My own source of personal angst is Mozilla's mediocre user interface. [...] The single biggest problem with Mozilla 1.0 as it stands today is that all of the applications (Composer, Chatzilla, Messenger, Netscape) are bundled together into a single monolithic app. In order to support this model, the front end code has been complicated immensely. [...] The end result of this rigid adherence to the mistakes of Netscape 4.x is the cluttered mess that is Mozilla 1.0. The solution is clear: after Mozilla 1.0, the apps should be disentangled from one another. Each app should run in its own process. User interface elements should have clearly defined roles." You guess it, recommended reading, too.
