Compare the IE6 navigation button group
with the ones in IE7
Ha Ha Ha.
Did you get it?
No?
Ahem
The IE6 developer said, a user will want to navigate back and forth and may want to select a url in either direction. That makes four scenarios. Hence two buttons each with a drop down menu.
The IE7 program manager says, wait a minute. There are only three scenarios. The user can go back, forward, or pick a website from the history to navigate to. Ergo, Two buttons and one drop down.
Follow the mental model, not mathematical
Eureka
11 comments:
Wow... this is cool.. though I never realized the difference between the features in IE 6 and 7. I go with the Program Manager, anyone thinks otherwise ?
I would have put the dropdown near the History button, for recent/quick history. Additional benefit: you don't have arrows looking inconsistent with each other.
I never used the arrows near the forward and back buttons :-) I found it unusable somehow going through the list to figure out which page is what. Was easier to use only the buttons.
I have used history though. Which is more meaningfully sorted etc.
and pray, where is the history button ? :)
Its hidden under the star
Right, @Sowmya, So by the time one reaches it, the drop-down is not needed at all :)
Error by compulsive Firefox user:(!
I was referring to the history button on IE6 - that was a separate button. I've rarely used IE7, and I guess I didn't pay enough attention to the rest of the buttons.
So the IE 7 buttons make sense. Although I'd rather have a history button than a drop down (with the same functionality) - I think its just more intuitive.
Vipul, you mean, one less combo box, right?
Sunil, sorry my comment was not that clear :|.
New improved version:
"Okay!! Firefox and IE6 have two combo box, for forward and going back.. and I would like to defend them.
Usually user uses these combo box on the basis of number of clicks,nobody actually remembers the page name. They just remember that 4 pages back there was a nice page :), so he won't click back 4 times but just choose it from combo box list(on the basis of that number), and that one combo box in IE7 fails to serve any purpose for that,because you will never know whether it was back or forth. Fine...!! There maybe some users who remember the name of pages,but those two combo-box serve them too.. Isn't it?? :)
All that just with use of one more combo box (i.e. 2 in firefox compared to 1 in IE7) !! Eureka :D"
I hope I make myself clear this time.
> They just remember that 4 pages back there was a nice page :)
Right. May be thats why i always clicked on the back button 4 times. :-) Never bothered to go thru the list and figure out though. Four clicks are faster for me. :-)
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