In-Content Preferences for Firefox may be here in 16 weeks
Today is the first day of the semester for students at Michigan State University. A group of 4 to 5 students from Michigan State’s CSE Capstone course will be working with Mozilla to move the preferences from a dialog window to within the content area of the browser.
This work is done as part of a course at Michigan State that computer science students take before they graduate. The students work with companies within industry to get some more real-world experience and build their professional network. The course is officially called “CSE 498: Collaborative Design”, but the informal and popular name is “the Capstone course”.
Stephen Horlander has put together some fantastic designs for the students to reference and build towards. Blair McBride and I will be helping to mentor the students throughout the semester.
Here’s to a great semester!
Update: The students working on the project are Devan Sayles, Jon Rietveld, Owen Carpenter, and Zuhao (Joe) Chen. Welcome aboard!
I applaud your efforts! This will be a most looked-forward to UI change.
I have just one question: why?
Simple because Chrome does it?
“Different by Design” my arse!
All in-tab preferences do is provide more room to move and confuse the hell out of the punters as to the hitherto solid, more secure, mental model breakdown b/w browser and content. Which usability clown proposed this crap idea in the first place?
Why? Because it reduces the modality of the browser and allows for more interesting ways of using the preferences.
In other topics… please be more polite in your comments. The tone of this comment isn’t nice and it doesn’t deserve a place on my blog.
Sir , these mockups were made way before Chrome implemented in content preferences , your argument is irrelevant
Jared: FYI, pd has been a mostly rude presence in Mozilla blogs, forums, etc, for years. He got banned from Bugzilla, too.
Been looking forward to this one for a while.