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2009-03-18 , 19:27
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#21
Originally Posted by namtastic View Post
Yes, those icons are atrocious and assume the user knows way too much about the app before they use it. Whatever happened to *text*? Swipe right for tabs, swipe left for controls. Done.
Well, it is a beta application with a slightly different-than-normal UI paradigm for a market which is currently almost non-existant. The only competitor in this market as of now is MobileSafari by Apple.

Text has to be translated. Pictures/symbols you learn once and you're done with them. If you prefer a touch UI browser which uses a lot of text then you can use a different one, like MicroB. I can assure you however, that in my case, I'd love to have S60Browser give me more feedback in pictures/icons/symbols. Hmm, lets see...

Options on left button -> touch the button and the options are (translated):
* Subscription (on what? RSS feeds, a RSS symbol with a + would be a welcome substitution)
** "RSS feed name one"
** "RSS feed name two"
* Go to address (replacement for URI bar)
* Bookmarks
* Save as bookmark
* Navigation options
** Reload
** History
** Page oversight
* Full screen
* Zoom options
** 50%
** 75%
** 100%
** 125%
* Window
** Move between windows
** Close
** Allow pop-ups
* Clean privacy related data
** All
** Clean cache
** Delete cookies
** History
** Form.-/wachtwrdgeg. (???)
* Instruments
** Show workbox (not clear what this is)
** Change connection
** Disconnect
** Save page
** Send page
** Info about page
* Search
** Text
** Telnumber
** E-mail address
* Settings
* Printoptions
** Print page
** Page settings
** Example
** Printers (Not I do not even have a printer configured on the device...)
* Help
* Quit

The right button on the S60 device allows one to go a page back or close the window. Thank god. However all the above is there in text form and I keep searching my *** off. Had they used conventional symbols instead... and some words (maybe due to translation) make no sense whatsoever. They are not descriptive.

If you look at it from this angle text is not necessarily good. It takes up more page than symbols as well. When the EU was formed there was a goal to harmonize the traffic signs. Some countries had some really odd ones which were not conventional. Some differences were slight. Here, standards are to be set as well.

(E.g., in MobileSafari there's a uniform way to scroll to the top of any scrolling space
How? Is this for iPhoneOS applications in general? I surely haven't figured this out yet. I keep scrolling to the top.

and the location bars and controls are always there. In Fennec, the location bar is attached to the top of the space, but there's no shortcut to get back to the top that I've found, and sometimes when simply scrolling up the location bar appears while in the middle of the page... and I can't find a consistent way to make it appear.)
I'm not sure about this. To me, this sounds like a sensibility issue of the touchscreen. The way the interface works in this regard (related to gestures) should be consistent. Even if you find a feature illogic, it should at least be consistenly illogic
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