User-interface responsiveness is your best entertainment value
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Feb. 21st, 2005 | 08:42 pm
mood: 
cheerful
I'm full up on personal projects, but here's one for my inbox:
My contribution to the mozilla firefox project will be to review and enhance whatever is indicated by this metric:
When I change tabs, how quickly do you show me the contents of that tab?
This is important to me because of my particular (perhaps idiosyncratic) processor-intensive, browser-crashing, web-browsing style. Don't make me wait, ever. Never ever ever. I don't care what else may be happening. If you are a computer program with a user interface, your first priority needs to be interacting with me. Don't just do something; stand there. You are my guide; don't leave me stranded, even if to do something I asked you to do. If this means you need to (over-)specialize, then fine. Do it. Where 'it' is my most recent demand.
This is likely to be a hard problem and not localized to any particular part of the code.
An interesting first milestone will be to make a small suite of tests for this metric.
My contribution to the mozilla firefox project will be to review and enhance whatever is indicated by this metric:
When I change tabs, how quickly do you show me the contents of that tab?
This is important to me because of my particular (perhaps idiosyncratic) processor-intensive, browser-crashing, web-browsing style. Don't make me wait, ever. Never ever ever. I don't care what else may be happening. If you are a computer program with a user interface, your first priority needs to be interacting with me. Don't just do something; stand there. You are my guide; don't leave me stranded, even if to do something I asked you to do. If this means you need to (over-)specialize, then fine. Do it. Where 'it' is my most recent demand.
This is likely to be a hard problem and not localized to any particular part of the code.
An interesting first milestone will be to make a small suite of tests for this metric.
Re: Much less interesting question...
from:
chefmonkey
date: Feb. 22nd, 2005 05:32 pm (UTC)
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So, for example, tab switching is done using ctrl-tab (go to the next tab) and shift-ctrl-tab (go to the previous tab). As a further example, you can use ctrl-f4 to close the current tab.
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