More on Firefox
Adam Scheinberg, November 2, 2006 (18 years ago)
It's not constructive to constantly rant with no action. So rather than just bitch and moan, I decided to give the Firefox devs the benefit of the doubt and move my complaints to their USENET group as requested.
Here's the thread. I got a fairly nice response from one of the devs, and then two slightly shorter responses, including one that appears to do nothing more than suggest that since the way I style my feed sucks, it's pointless to allow people to style threads.
One guy has a great point - if Firefox's default style didn't suck, would everyone be happier? Sheesh, hadn't though about that, but you know what?? I admit, maybe I would be less upset.
I still think the browser behavior is bad, but if they're going to intercept, at least do it with the same style Microsoft does with IE7.
I have to say, I'm fairly pleased with the Firefox guys' responses. For a group that probably has to put up with plenty of people bitching about their bugs of choice, they have been pretty civil and well thought out in their responses.
Here's the thread. I got a fairly nice response from one of the devs, and then two slightly shorter responses, including one that appears to do nothing more than suggest that since the way I style my feed sucks, it's pointless to allow people to style threads.
One guy has a great point - if Firefox's default style didn't suck, would everyone be happier? Sheesh, hadn't though about that, but you know what?? I admit, maybe I would be less upset.
I still think the browser behavior is bad, but if they're going to intercept, at least do it with the same style Microsoft does with IE7.
I have to say, I'm fairly pleased with the Firefox guys' responses. For a group that probably has to put up with plenty of people bitching about their bugs of choice, they have been pretty civil and well thought out in their responses.