Google Chrome’s application shortcuts further blur the distinction between desktop applications and web applications. Unfortunately, they don’t work on my computer for some mysterious reason — I keep clicking the appropriate menu but the browser remains mum. What should happen, ideally is that if I were to create a Chrome application shortcut (for say, GMail) on [...]
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Whither GMail?
Posted in Computing, GUI Design on October 1, 2008 | 6 Comments »
dynamic cascading of windows
Posted in GUI Design on February 20, 2007 | 3 Comments »
emphasis on transparent windows, 3D cascading miss the point. the reason why plain old cascading is not good enough is simple: when you click a window, the titlebars of the windows placed slightly below it will no longer be visible.
notice that when the user clicked window A, it covered the titlebar of window B [...]
