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I've pressed Ctrl+Shift+T in my browser to reopen a tab with a CNET article I just read, and I got back a different article.
Ctrl-Shift-T is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get...
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...thank you very much, but I'd rather not.
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The Kindle app for Android has a handy little feature: a padlock icon that you can click to lock screen rotation, so that your book doesn't suddenly change from portrait to landscape (or vice-versa) just because you set your phone down or put it in your pocket or whatever. It almost works great!
Problem is, the use case for that is specifically "keep it in landscape (or portrait) orientation like it is now." It's not "keep it in whatever specific orientation of the four total possibilities it is now." If I rotate the phone 180 degrees, nothing inconvenient will happen if the now upside-down text turns right-side-up to follow me.
Getting this right is a standard feature on Android. They have orientation modes called
sensorLandscape
andsensorPortrait
specifically for this: keep it in the current orientation style, but if the sensor detects that the phone is upside down, flip it. This is virtually always what the user intends if they want to lock the orientation... but for whatever reason, the Kindle app doesn't do that.Between the placement of the buttons on the side of the phone and the location of my charger, the most convenient way to hold the phone in Landscape mode happens to be the opposite of the convenient way to set it down and plug it in to charge. So their failure to correctly set
sensorLandscape
orientation ends up being a minor irritation on a daily basis.
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What's wrong with this picture?
Maybe the overlapping fucked-up titlebar that doesn't actually exist I guess?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
What's wrong with this picture?
Maybe the overlapping fucked-up titlebar that doesn't actually exist I guess?
Yeah, something got messed up. It should be on the line below:
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Maybe the overlapping fucked-up titlebar that doesn't actually exist I guess?
I can't believe this problem is still around. I posted about it a while ago (checked it: almost three years)
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I can't believe this problem is still around
It's for compatibility. Someone has definitely turned it into a feature of their App, you just know it...
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YouTube has some new recommendation bar that can't be removed. I'm not sure I've ever deliberately watched videos in some of those categories.
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@loopback0 It doesn't appear on Subscriptions, the only Youtube page worth using
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@loopback0 said in UI Bites:
YouTube has some new recommendation bar that can't be removed. I'm not sure I've ever deliberately watched videos in some of those categories.
Log out. It'll be gone and YouTube won't really work any differently.
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Log out. It'll be gone and YouTube won't really work any differently.
Except for the lack of dark mode, and subscriptions, etc.
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@loopback0 said in UI Bites:
Log out. It'll be gone and YouTube won't really work any differently.
Except for the lack of dark mode, and subscriptions, etc.
You don't need to be logged in to use dark mode, and I've never been a big subscription-on-sites person. If I want to check someone's videos regularly on YouTube I make a bookmark, though nowadays they track what you watch so closely that I haven't used them very much. (The algorithm backfires when you watch something unusual, though.)
The only place that I watch YouTube regularly while logged in is on my phone, and that's only because they make it a pain to log out of it without logging out of every Google service on the phone. But I'm sure I'm in the minority. :/
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Google Drive got a new UI for the link sharing settings.
I could never dismiss the top right blue message no matter how many times I clicked "Got it"
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Why is Google Maps constantly zooming in and out every time you do anything? "Oh, you searched for something, let me zoom out so you can see a map of results on the whole city!" NO DAMN IT I HAVE IT ZOOMED RIGHT WHERE I WANT TO SEARCH
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@anonymous234 Google Maps does seem to be taking stupid pills lately.
A while back, I was trying to find where ATMs were in Hamilton, Montana so I typed in "atm in hamilton mt", thinking it would show me where some ATMs were there. Instead, it helpfully showed me a number of ATMs in the city I am currently in, which is not even on the same continent as Montana. (It is, though, about two hours out from a town called Hamilton.)
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@Douglasac said in UI Bites:
Google Maps does seem to be taking stupid pills lately.
Google maps had been taking stupid pills since when they hired that graphic designer with absolutely no clue about map making. That was almost ten years ago I believe.
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@Bulb I recall complaining about the then new layout of Google Maps, which is the current one I believe, when they forced everyone off the old, functional version onto it. Apparently, over the years, I have adapted. (Still doesn't stop it from spitting out braindead instructions, though)
There's not many other options here in Australia. Bing Maps is okay but it doesn't have as much info as Google does, and all the other alternatives e.g. Openstreetmap, Whereis etc., are worse.
I recall Here WeGo being useful, but the last time I used them seriously was when Google Maps didn't allow for offline maps and I used my phone as a GPS. A quick look shows it's actually okay, even does transit directions. So may need to look into that.
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@Douglasac said in UI Bites:
There's not many other options here in Australia.
Yeah. We have very good local map provider here, https://mapy.cz/, but we are rather an exception. They do have whole world, but outside Czechia and Slovakia they are just taking Open Street Map data.
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When you're searching for something, and you want to filter for posts made in the last 2 months or so, but you go to the "advanced search" and it's like:
Filter by date:
- Last hour
- Last 2 hours
- Last 3 hours
- Last 5 days
- All time
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Just turned on my PC. Instead of booting to desktop, Windows decides to tell me about its activity history and phone pairing features, and offers to set me up with a free Office 365.
It's not the fact that it's had those features for a while and telling me like I didn't already know, it's the "Just a moment" line flashing away during the transitions like HAL about to announce a fault in the AE35 unit.
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@anonymous234 said in UI Bites:
When you're searching for something, and you want to filter for posts made in the last 2 months or so, but you go to the "advanced search" and it's like:
Filter by date:
- Last hour
- Last 2 hours
- Last 3 hours
- Last 5 days
- All time
.... Fuck!
But once in a search you can fucker with the URL parameter
timeRange
...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
But once in a search you can fucker with the URL parameter timeRange...
So, not a bad UI then
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@TimeBandit said in UI Bites:
So,
not a badindustry standard quality UI then
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Goddammit, the iOS email client has moved buttons around again in the 13.4 update.
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@loopback0 said in UI Bites:
Goddammit, the iOS email client has moved buttons around again in the 13.4 update.
Designers gotta design.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in UI Bites:
See also: Chrome 83
This is apparently the doing of Microsoft and Google together.
Apparently, on Windows, the Windows form controls weren't good enough for Microsoft in Edgeium. (Edgium?)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
@Douglasac said in UI Bites:
Edgeium. (Edgium?)
Edgmium.
Definitely Edgium, like Belgium.
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@Luhmann E*****m
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@Luhmann Bel-gee-um?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
@Douglasac said in UI Bites:
Edgeium. (Edgium?)
Edgmium.
I like Chredge.
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@Parody
Chredging along on the information highway
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"There are two hard problems in computer science."
Choosing where to download your files to seems to be one of them, to some people.
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gets the theme text color but uses its own background color
Some 20 years ago, our UI designers decided that the users should be able to recognize mandatory fields easily. They decided to set the background color of the fields to the tooltip background color.
Used to work well: tooltips had black texts on a yellowish background.
But it failed with some customers. They complained that they can't read anything in those elements, they were all black.
How did that come? They changed their tooltip settings to just an inversion, i.e. white texts on black background. But our mandatory fields did not change their text color...
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@BernieTheBernie said in UI Bites:
They complained that they can't read anything in those elements, they were all black.
That's racist!
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@BernieTheBernie 'Twas a joke.
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@Zecc yes. It erroneously set the folder to the c: drive and I haven't felt the need to disabuse it of that notion.
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Oh great. YouTube on full-screen is no longer showing the settings icon.
Or the toggle full-screen icon.
Or the volume icon.
Or anything other than the scrubber, really.I wonder how many more ways they can think of to mess with an interface which didn't need any improvements.
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I wonder what one many more ways can they think of to mess with an interface which didn't need any improvements.
In a couple weeks, they'll bring them back and gleefully announce "our new and improved interface has just been released"
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@Zecc ENOREPRO, my Youtube full screen interface looks the same as always, with all the controls.
Maybe it's some A/B testing in preparation for something they'll release regardless of 100% negative response
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@Zecc ENOREPRO, my Youtube full screen interface looks the same as always, with all the controls.
Maybe it's some A/B testing in preparation for something they'll release regardless of 100% negative response
đź’Ż
Ship it!
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Oh great. YouTube on full-screen is no longer showing the settings icon.
Or the toggle full-screen icon.
Or the volume icon.
Or anything other than the scrubber, really.I wonder how many more ways they can think of to mess with an interface which didn't need any improvements.
UPDATE: now I'm on another computer and I'm seeing how the scrubber occupies the full width of the screen and the remainder of the UI elements are below it, I'm thinking what really happened was the bottom of the window was missing.
I did find it suspicious that I was seeing the taskbar, but I figured the browser had gone from truly full-screen to borderless maximized window mode, or whatever it is called, somehow. It didn't look like the window continued underneath the taskbar.
So it was not YouTube's fault this time, but Windows', for covering up the bottom of the browser with the taskbar.
I'm happy with blaming Windows instead.
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@Zerosquare said in UI Bites:
Actually Chromium + JavaScript is much better tested than the specialized UI toolkits that would have been probably used before, certifications notwithstanding. The certifications establish some estimates of failure rates and stuff, but don't get things that much better tested. At that point, safety is more about having fallback for the most critical stuff, usually several levels of it, like having separate computer for each screen and maybe some backups. The hardware can fail too after all.
What I find more strange is that they allowed them to use touch-screens, because they are unusable when the vehicle is vibrating or accelerating rapidly, which a space ship obviously does. I would instead expect a hand-rest with trackball and keypad like they use aircraft. E.g in A350 it looks like this:
https://www.austrianaviation.net/fileadmin/html/trackball1.jpg
With hand on the rest, that thing remains (somewhat) usable even in severe turbulence.
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Actually Chromium + JavaScript is much better tested than the specialized UI toolkits that would have been probably used before, certifications notwithstanding.
But they're absolutely not designed for critical stuff, and the source code is needlessly huge and complex for such an application (which is definitely something you don't want when you're looking for reliability).