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    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.

    Visit blogHN submissions
    Design & UXWeb Development
    What HN says

    HN links it for posts on Gmail's minimalist design, users who can't read URLs, Ubiquity's verbs, and Firefox versioning and keyboard tricks.

    Stats for nerds
    23HN people shared it
    22linked in comments
    341story points
    Dec 2016last shared
    2009people per year2016

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      GMail: designer arrogance and the cult of minimalism
      3 people · 256 points · first shared 2012 · 223 comments on HN
    2. 2
      Is it possible to opt out of social networking?
      1 person · 40 points · first shared 2010 · 29 comments on HN
    3. 3
      Some People Can’t Read URLs
      3 people · 7 points · first shared 2010 · 4 comments on HN
    4. 4
      These things I believe
      2 people · 5 points · first shared 2008 · Discussion on HN
    5. 5
      Cool, intuitive javascript selection technique
      1 person · 5 points · first shared 2008 · Discussion on HN
    6. 6
      Lovebird is ready for beta testing
      2 people · 4 points · first shared 2013 · Discussion on HN
    7. 7
      Trying to escape from Google Buzz: The Adventure Continues
      1 person · 4 points · first shared 2010 · Discussion on HN
    8. 8
      Openness is a lot of work.
      1 person · 4 points · first shared 2010 · Discussion on HN
    9. 9
      What Mozilla Labs learned from Ubiquity
      2 people · 3 points · first shared 2010 · Discussion on HN
    10. 10
      Marketing genius (on iPhone)
      1 person · 2 points · first shared 2009 · Discussion on HN

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • thaumaturgyAug 2014

      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-numbers-its-about-extension-compatibility-and-long-term-support/ 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?

    • kevinburkeOct 2013

      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-and-the-cult-of-minimalism/

      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.

    • glenjaminFeb 2011

      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.

    • LycanthropeMay 2011

      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/

    • icebrainingDec 2016

      I agree with you, and it reminds me of Mozilla Ubiquity, and particularly this post: https://jonoscript.wordpress.com/2008/07/26/why-verbs/

    • jfarmerDec 2009

      The first comment on this blog lays out some key differences: http://jonoscript.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/google-chrome-extensions/

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