Jonoscript
jonoscript.wordpress.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2008
Jonathan Ellis? No: Jono Xia, a former Mozilla Labs developer, writes about UI design, Ubiquity, Firefox, and usability.
What HN saysHN links it for posts on Gmail's minimalist design, users who can't read URLs, Ubiquity's verbs, and Firefox versioning and keyboard tricks.
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Most-shared posts
- 1GMail: designer arrogance and the cult of minimalism3 people · 256 points · first shared 2012 · 223 comments on HN
- 2Some People Can’t Read URLs3 people · 7 points · first shared 2010 · 4 comments on HN
- 3These things I believe2 people · 5 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 4Lovebird is ready for beta testing2 people · 4 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 5What Mozilla Labs learned from Ubiquity2 people · 3 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 6Is it possible to opt out of social networking?1 people · 40 points · first shared 2010 · 29 comments on HN
- 7Cool, intuitive javascript selection technique1 people · 5 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 8Trying to escape from Google Buzz: The Adventure Continues1 people · 4 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 9Openness is a lot of work.1 people · 4 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 10Plumbing, and the magic word "it"1 people · 2 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 11Marketing genius (on iPhone)1 people · 2 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 12Why You Should Care About the Open Web1 people · 2 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 13A tutorial level for the internet?1 people · 2 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 14Voice Recognition and Ambiguity1 people · 1 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 15Language-Based Interfaces, Part 2: Where do we stand now?1 people · 1 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
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kevinburke · 2013-10-01
11px is a pretty small default, below the recommended size. For links it also means a small target to click on.
There's some context about icons here: http://jonoscript.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/gmail-designer-arrogance-an…
If they are universally acknowledgeable (a big red X, a red dot, a green dot) then yeah they make sense, otherwise they just lead to confusion about what they do. In this case I didn't think they were adding anything to the left hand marker so I removed them.
icebraining · 2016-12-19
I agree with you, and it reminds me of Mozilla Ubiquity, and particularly this post: https://jonoscript.wordpress.com/2008/07/26/why-verbs/
thaumaturgy · 2014-08-29
I must be missing something.
I was under the impression that Mozilla was incrementing Firefox's major version number with every new release, even if new releases didn't have api changes. As described in http://jonoscript.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/its-not-about-the-version-n… for example.
Is that not the case? Is there actually some part of Firefox that other software relies on that's getting changed in not-backwards-compatible ways with every release?
Lycanthrope · 2011-05-19
Some article was temporarily the top Google hit when searching "facebook login". This caused some confusion among URL-unaware facebook users.
http://jonoscript.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/some-people-cant-read-urls/
glenjamin · 2011-02-10
If you recall a while back, a blog post became the top result for typing "facebook" into the firefox address bar (or something along those lines - see http://jonoscript.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/some-people-cant-read-urls/…
If the conclusions of this are to be believed, I would say that the URL matters very little.
jfarmer · 2009-12-10
The first comment on this blog lays out some key differences: http://jonoscript.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/google-chrome-extensions/