Re: Aurora down the spine

["Taylor" <taylor@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Pinkerton wrote in message <3528F749.A6074E5E@xxxxxxxxxxxx>...

>If you don't want them, you can always hide the selector bar (it's in the
View
>menu on Mac, not sure on Win but probably similiar).


Ahhh... but it's not me I'm concerned with.  I'm concerned with the precious
real-estate that everyone is forced to work with when designing pages for
640x480 monitors.  You take away and more room, even 16px of space and
suddenly the ad banner isn't fully visible, and you are forced into a site
redesign with new IAB ad units.  And no one wants that.  Also your designs
all have to suddenly deal with a vertical grey bar (or unknown if the user
starts playing with their colors).  I understand what you are trying to
achieve with the buttons and the action that happens, but suddenly the space
that was traditionally mine (the author) is now shared with you (the
program) and that changes a lot about web design.

Especially now that CSS and DHTML allows much more immersive experiances
with the browser I'd have for 16px to get in the way.  If there is any way
to move the buttons up with the rest of the UI I think that you would be
doing designers a good turn.

-taylor
taylor@xxxxxxxxx