Comments on: Where To Focus? http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2007/11/05/where-to-focus/ This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:17:03 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Shawn Wilsher http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2007/11/05/where-to-focus/comment-page-1/#comment-4607 Shawn Wilsher Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:05:50 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2007/11/05/where-to-focus/#comment-4607 Hey now - most of the download manager checkins have had tests land with the features (or have litmus tests shortly thereafter for things difficult to test automatically)... Hey now – most of the download manager checkins have had tests land with the features (or have litmus tests shortly thereafter for things difficult to test automatically)…

]]> By: DigDug http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2007/11/05/where-to-focus/comment-page-1/#comment-4595 DigDug Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:57:46 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2007/11/05/where-to-focus/#comment-4595 As much as I would love to see more focus on performance, memory usage, and stability, I do have to say that the new Download Manager kinda sucks and really doesn't add all that much new helpful UI. I really don't understand what testing there is to do, when it doesn't even really work yet. Same goes for a lot of the Places UI. Theres a place for screenshots to appear, and no screenshots to put there. There's no way to access starred pages in there, making the whole star UI kinda pointless. etc. etc. Maybe you guys bit off more than you could chew in just a year here. I applaud the push to get this thing out, but its impossible to think about just focusing on performance at this point. Theres too much thats just half done. As much as I would love to see more focus on performance, memory usage, and stability, I do have to say that the new Download Manager kinda sucks and really doesn’t add all that much new helpful UI. I really don’t understand what testing there is to do, when it doesn’t even really work yet.

Same goes for a lot of the Places UI. Theres a place for screenshots to appear, and no screenshots to put there. There’s no way to access starred pages in there, making the whole star UI kinda pointless. etc. etc.

Maybe you guys bit off more than you could chew in just a year here. I applaud the push to get this thing out, but its impossible to think about just focusing on performance at this point. Theres too much thats just half done.

]]> By: Mike Beltzner http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2007/11/05/where-to-focus/comment-page-1/#comment-4594 Mike Beltzner Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:40:45 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2007/11/05/where-to-focus/#comment-4594 What makes you think we haven't been testing the download manager? As far as I understand things, testing's been ongoing since the feature landed back in the summer, bugs are being filed, and things are being fixed. The download manager represented almost an entire rewrite of the code, and I'm pretty amazed at how few regressions have popped up. What makes you think we haven’t been testing the download manager? As far as I understand things, testing’s been ongoing since the feature landed back in the summer, bugs are being filed, and things are being fixed.

The download manager represented almost an entire rewrite of the code, and I’m pretty amazed at how few regressions have popped up.

]]> By: cbarrett http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2007/11/05/where-to-focus/comment-page-1/#comment-4569 cbarrett Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:20:33 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2007/11/05/where-to-focus/#comment-4569 Rob, you forgot to add #0: <b>Ship, dammit</b>. Rob, you forgot to add #0: Ship, dammit.

]]> By: Ran http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2007/11/05/where-to-focus/comment-page-1/#comment-4568 Ran Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:09:22 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2007/11/05/where-to-focus/#comment-4568 Good call, Rob. Good call, Rob.

]]> By: Peter Kasting http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2007/11/05/where-to-focus/comment-page-1/#comment-4566 Peter Kasting Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:51:59 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2007/11/05/where-to-focus/#comment-4566 Thank you for being a voice of sanity; were I still working on Firefox I'd advocate for the same things you've said (and perhaps even drop the "native theming" bit). Just fixing items 5 and 6 properly could easily eat the rest of the time until Fx3 final ships. I'm still cringing from the horror that was the Fx2 theme change. Thank you for being a voice of sanity; were I still working on Firefox I’d advocate for the same things you’ve said (and perhaps even drop the “native theming” bit). Just fixing items 5 and 6 properly could easily eat the rest of the time until Fx3 final ships. I’m still cringing from the horror that was the Fx2 theme change.

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