Konqueror for a New Experience (mockup)

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Tuesday 14 March 2006 13:01, Iñaki wrote:
> - The "refresh" button will change to the "stop" button as long as a web
> page or thumbnails are loading (like in Safari or Opera) instead of having
> two seperate buttons.

i'm skeptical of buttons that change meaning based on modalities that are for 
most intents and purposes technical details (how much of the page has loaded, 
for instance). overloading widgets with multiple meanings has a usability 
cost associated with it; having lots of buttons also does, but generally less 
(unless you have insane numbers of buttons). also last time i looked at this 
issue in detail i found a number of corner cases where one will want to load 
before the page is "completely" loaded (i didn't keep the list, unfortunately 
=/ ).

given that both firefox and IE keep these buttons separate is quite 
interesting.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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