More usability frosting for your accessibility cake
Mac users are spoiled. It’s a fact we Windows folks have to live with—when it comes to usable interfaces, Mac applications are far ahead. Even Microsoft makes better products for OS X than for Windows.
A perfect example of this is the truly elegant interface for boxes using tags. Take this simple form, for example. In Internet Explorer for Mac, the create a list, through which you can navigate their associated options:
Compare that to the same in Firefox for Windows:
The difference is striking. (Via Digital Web Magazine)
A perfect example of this is the truly elegant interface for boxes using tags. Take this simple form, for example. In Internet Explorer for Mac, the create a list, through which you can navigate their associated options:
Compare that to the same in Firefox for Windows:
The difference is striking. (Via Digital Web Magazine)
2 Comments:
I don't know that it goes without saying that the Mac implementation is better given the short length of the list.
With the Mac's version, options are hidden, there are more targets to aquire, actions to perform, etc.
This is really just the old "beware of cascading menus" saw, isn't it?
-Eric
Yes, the example is the cascading menu issue. But, there are several more examples in the article.
Bob
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