Our little ‘bird is all grown up
When I started using Thunderbird, I must admit that I had to force myself. Stephen Horlander and I were creating the Pinstripe theme and I was happily using Apple’s Mail program. A year ago Thunderbird felt unfinished (I can hear you say “duh”), but I needed that dogfood taste to inform the design of Pinstripe. [...]
Find Bar Feng Shui
I have always thought the UI for Firefox’s Find Toolbar has room for improvement. Recently the Match Case checkbox was added to the bar, increasing the amount of horizontal space it requires. This becomes a problem when the find bar is used in the Help window, where a portion is clipped off unless you [...]
“Live Bookmarks” is not RSS
A few days ago we changed Firefox’s Live Bookmarks status icon to something less geeky.
As people rightly pointed out, Live Bookmarks shouldn’t pretend to be RSS. The status bar icon should not represent multiple flavors of a syndication format. It should represent the Live Bookmarks feature.
Here are some of Stephen Horlander’s original sketches for a [...]
Pinstripe Tabs, part 2
This is in response to Bill McGonigle’s comment about Pinstripe’s tabs.
Bill says: “I think of Pinstripe as truely Aqua-consistent theme for Mozilla. I place consistency one tiny notch above optimal functionality on the Mac, so I would advocate emulating Jaguar’s tab look and feel.”
Pinstripe aims for Aqua-compliance, but it misses the mark somewhat. And where [...]
From the lab: Pinstripe theme tab redesign
After seeing Panther’s new tab controls, I thought it was time to redesign Pinstripe’s browser tabs. I want to make the tabs less visually disturbing than the Aqua tabs while being usable and polished. Here’s what I have so far. Click on the thumbnail below to view the whole image. Please comment on the design [...]
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