by Dave
Tue 2 May 2006 @ 19:48
"More than anything else, this is the smartest aspect of what Mozilla has done with Firefox: It's a realistic browser, a worthy successor to the Navigator line. It's a browser that inspires an emotional response. You don't have to learn to like it with your left brain; you just like it."
That is a quote from today's New York Times. I have been struggling for years to verbalise exactly what it is that I don't like about the firefox browser, and it is this : I do not want a browser that elicits an emotional response. I want to use a browser that provides me with a transparent window to the web. I don't want the program to provoke an emotional response, I want the content to do that for me. I want it to be an empty container, something that I can fill with whatever I need to satisfy my needs. IE provides me with that because it looks like a Windows window. It works, and it renders content well. Microsoft messed up the web by stifling CSS development and producing a browser that bastardised the rendering of standards compliant code. You know what? I don't care. What I care about is that the browser I use now renders content well, does it fast, and doesn't intrude on my experience with Windows. Its a tool, nothing more, nothing less.