Konqueror for a New Experience (mockup)

[Kurt Pfeifle]

On Tuesday 14 March 2006 20:59, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 March 2006 13:46, Stefan Monov wrote:
> > On Tuesday 14 March 2006 22:01, 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.
> >
> > What if the user reaches for the stop button, but 0.000001 second before he
> > clicks it, the page loading finishes and he clicks it nevertheless? The
> > observed behavior would be the precise opposite of the expected one.
> > Safari and Opera users keep bitching about this misfeature in their
> > browsers.
> 
> yes. another use case are pages that don't fully load (usually due to slow 
> servers or limited client-side bandwidth) so it never goes out of "stop" and 
> what the user wants to do is reload the page... 

Now you convinced me...

> now they have to hit stop to  
> get it to switch modes then hit reload. but since reload isn't visible, that 
> means the user has to learn a lot more about the interface and such 
> modalities are one of the things most people are quite poor at grasping. not 
> to mention it now takes 2 clicks =0

...and now even more.  ;-)