[IxDA Discuss] Awesome Bar

[Will Evans]

Speaking of which - has anyone else noticed that 3.0.5 breaks for iGoogle?

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Fred Beecher <fbeecher at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/24/08, john at smorgasbord-design.co.uk <john at smorgasbord-design.co.uk>
> wrote:
> >
> > Will Firefox 3's new 'Awesome Bar' (eeugh) [1] change the way we navigate
> > online, enhancing search within the browser?
>
>
> I didn't notice it as being anything different than FF2 until I read the
> "What's New" page on Mozilla' s FF site. At which point I thought, "Huh, I
> guess it does look different." Since then I've used it, but I've found
> myself squinting through it... Many times it will come up with deep
> internal
> pages before just the home page of a site, and it's usually not the deep
> pages I'm looking for.
>
> Also, Google Maps breaks it. The page title listed in the "Awesome Bar"
> will
> indicate an address, search, or whatever, but you'll notice that the URL is
> just maps.google.com. I don't know if that's FF's problem or Google's, but
> it sure does cause users' actions to have unexpected results.
>
> Sorry if this is a little light on the cynicism. I've used most of mine up
> for today. : )
>
> - F.
> ________________________________________________________________
> Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)!
> To post to this list ....... discuss at ixda.org
> Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe
> List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines
> List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
>



-- 
~ will

"Where you innovate, how you innovate,
and what you innovate are design problems"

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Will Evans | User Experience Architect
tel +1.617.281.1281 || wkevans4 at gmail.com
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------