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Remove the Add Bookmark button from Safari 4
Authored by: frgough on Jun 11, '09 01:34:44PM

Not at all. The scroll bar is on the right precisely because it is of secondary importance. Reading the page is what you do first. Scrolling the page is what you do second.

Take a look at the rest of your desktop. Where's the Apple menu? What are the first three menu entries in the menu bar for every app? What is the leftmost icon on the dock? Where are the window control buttons located? What order do the tabs appear in your browser? In what order are item listed in the Finder Sidebar? Which side of the window is the sidebar on?

The "top-left is important; bottom-right is unimportant" paradigm is evidenced throughout the entire Mac GUI.



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Remove the Add Bookmark button from Safari 4
Authored by: Unsoluble on Jun 11, '09 04:49:10PM

Sure, I think there's some truth to that, but that's not really what I'm getting at, which is that I don't think the average user has his mouse hovering around the top left of the screen while browsing websites. Do you honestly do that?



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Remove the Add Bookmark button from Safari 4
Authored by: yakovlev on Jun 12, '09 09:44:11PM

ephraim, of course most users usually hover over the page, using the two-finger gesture to scroll if on a notebook or a scrolling ball/scroll bars if on a desktop computer.

The real problem here is consistency. The "main" actions of Mac apps are always located in the top left corner. The close/minimize/maximize buttons are there. The navigational buttons are there: back/forward in Finder and Safari; rewind, play/pause and fast forward in iTunes.

So, after some time, you just learn to thrust the cursor top-left when you want to do something about navigation/window control. It just happens without thinking. And then all of a sudden you find that the button you expect to be there is not really there!

The stop/reload button is Safari is navigational because of the semantics of the web. Even in the age of Ajax, most pages don't update their contents automatically (e.g., a newspaper site). So if you want to see the last version, you hit "Reload". You're navigating in time to the last version. Also, intuitively, the stop/reload button is very much like iTunes stop/play button. You just expect it to be there, in the top left corner. That's the real reason some people hate the new button so much. It goes against the consistency.



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