Peaches Posted September 30, 2009 Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 <h1></h1>Mozilla denies it will 'ribbonize' FirefoxClarifies plans to eliminate the traditional menu bar in browserBy Gregg KeizerSeptember 29, 2009 Computerworld - Mozilla today denied that it will "ribbonize" upcoming Windows versions of Firefox, saying that its plans to eliminate the traditional menu bar will result in something much less complicated than Microsoft's often-derided user interface. "There's a key difference between what we would like to do and a 'ribbon,'" said Alex Faaborg, from the Mozilla interface design team. "Firefox will have a normal toolbar with two 'menu' tabs. We don't have thousands of commands like Microsoft Word, we have tens of commands." "New Windows Vista and Windows 7 applications are moving away from a menu bar," added Mike Beltzner, the director of Firefox. "We're taking a look at how other apps are doing this, and we'll make use of menu buttons." Faaborg and Beltzner were reacting to reports last week, including a story in Computerworld?, that pointed to Mozilla planning documents that cited Microsoft's "ribbon" interface -- best known as the foundation for the user interface redesign of Word 2007 -- as an example of where Firefox is headed. Full story computerworld - http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/913...x?taxonomyId=89 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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