Two Bad Experiences with Browser Interfaces
Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Something about interface development seems to be going wrong lately because in the last two weeks I’ve had two really crappy experiences with web browsers that could have been avoided. Or which I could have avoided had I not used the crappy interface at all.
The first pain in the ass that I ran into was the Internet Explorer 7 zooming feature. Yes I was aware of this feature but just happened to be on a strange computer at the university and yes Internet Explorer 7 isn’t much chop. So I went to scale some text using behaviour I’ve used for some time without any bother and the next thing I’m confronted with an obtrusive zooming feature. Why is zoom the default and why is it up to me to select zoom text as an option? Isn’t the current convention to zoom text? Isn’t there any concept of meeting the users expectation? Anyway, yes its a feature that may help some people but it made for a crap experience on my part.
