April 15, 2000
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Earlier this week, Suck stuck a jagged barb into Netscape 6 and other apps that have succumbed to interchangeable interface syndrome in Skin Cancer.
“Long relegated to the back seat of the software development process in favor of ever-more useless features, usability has recently been chloroformed, hog-tied and stuffed in the trunk.”
The fact that the latest version of Mozilla doesn’t look like any of the platforms it has been released for is disturbing. That you may end up having to use a third party skin in order to adopt a native OS look and feel makes me woozy. Apple, and to a lesser extent Microsoft, have spent a lot of time and money on creating interface widgets and standards that actually work. They’re not perfect. But they’re everywhere already, and they’re usable.
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