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Well, I read the AUP, and I believe this is safe. Anyone who would classify this as a "minor alteration" of an image or lacking "artistic interest" and wants to remove it can feel free to give me back the past 5 hours of my life first ;)
Some of Mozilla's intention for the front-end changes of Firefox 3 were to "make new default themes for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, giving Firefox a more native look and feel on different operating systems." In my opinion, they only did a half-assed job on this. While they adopted the fairly pretty blue gem-looking buttons and some IE7 stylistic things, they kept the light blue menu bars which are the standard for Vista apps. But the "native" apps such as Media Player and Photo Gallery and the like, they all use these pretty black "menu" bars with large buttons and options and such. In my mind, Firefox would look a hell of a lot better if they went with something like that, and seeing as I'm looking at a Firefox window for several hours a day, it'd really be bitchin' to have that change made.
I don't personally know how to make Firefox skins, so instead I made a mock-up of what it'd look like, in my mind. I stitched it together from elements of Firefox 3 RC 1 and Windows Media Player, as well as occasionally digging down into the pixel level for manipulating stuff. This is, as of now, my ideal look for Firefox. It represents both a clean visual style and a minimalist approach to maximize browser space. All the key functions are right there in the tool bar: navigation, stop and reload, home, URL, and bookmarking a site. All other functions can be found in menus when needed. With the smart address bar, bookmarks don't need to constantly take up screen space, and the tab bar disappears when you only have one tab open. And hell, even though it doesn't appear here, let's say that the status bar on the bottom auto-hides unless a page is doing something (transferring data) or you're hovering over a link to see where it goes.
In making this I ended up creating two versions but I liked this the best because it was more space-efficient and visually simple. What else... ah, I also don't usually run web browsers in windowed mode, opting for maximized instead, but in this case I wanted to show that it would scale decently to something that wasn't 1280+ pixels wide (in this case, <1000).
And I'd actually prefer it if all the menus were turned into submenus of an Office 2007-style button. Then the critical navigation buttons could go up right next to it... ooh, then the address bar could occupy the entire width of the screen, or allow for other stuff to go in next to it (such as a page loading indicator! so we don't need the status bar on the bottom of the window!)...!
Isn't interface design fun, kids? =D
Some of Mozilla's intention for the front-end changes of Firefox 3 were to "make new default themes for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, giving Firefox a more native look and feel on different operating systems." In my opinion, they only did a half-assed job on this. While they adopted the fairly pretty blue gem-looking buttons and some IE7 stylistic things, they kept the light blue menu bars which are the standard for Vista apps. But the "native" apps such as Media Player and Photo Gallery and the like, they all use these pretty black "menu" bars with large buttons and options and such. In my mind, Firefox would look a hell of a lot better if they went with something like that, and seeing as I'm looking at a Firefox window for several hours a day, it'd really be bitchin' to have that change made.
I don't personally know how to make Firefox skins, so instead I made a mock-up of what it'd look like, in my mind. I stitched it together from elements of Firefox 3 RC 1 and Windows Media Player, as well as occasionally digging down into the pixel level for manipulating stuff. This is, as of now, my ideal look for Firefox. It represents both a clean visual style and a minimalist approach to maximize browser space. All the key functions are right there in the tool bar: navigation, stop and reload, home, URL, and bookmarking a site. All other functions can be found in menus when needed. With the smart address bar, bookmarks don't need to constantly take up screen space, and the tab bar disappears when you only have one tab open. And hell, even though it doesn't appear here, let's say that the status bar on the bottom auto-hides unless a page is doing something (transferring data) or you're hovering over a link to see where it goes.
In making this I ended up creating two versions but I liked this the best because it was more space-efficient and visually simple. What else... ah, I also don't usually run web browsers in windowed mode, opting for maximized instead, but in this case I wanted to show that it would scale decently to something that wasn't 1280+ pixels wide (in this case, <1000).
And I'd actually prefer it if all the menus were turned into submenus of an Office 2007-style button. Then the critical navigation buttons could go up right next to it... ooh, then the address bar could occupy the entire width of the screen, or allow for other stuff to go in next to it (such as a page loading indicator! so we don't need the status bar on the bottom of the window!)...!
Isn't interface design fun, kids? =D
Category Artwork (Digital) / Miscellaneous
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Actually, if they were clever they'd leverage 3D acceleration for everything. Even things which today are typically 2D can be interpreted in 3D in various ways. I've been told that OS X uses 3D surfaces and pixel shaders for rotating and zooming images and stuff. True or not, I'm sure that a clever design and programming team could come up with some nice and useful things that a 3D rendering of even a web browser could do.
Although arguably, if you have a graphics card which has like half a teraflop of processing power, and you're just asking it to composite a couple flat images once every 60 seconds, that seems like an awful waste of power. Something which just does some pretty simple displaying of 3D shapes and photos as textures, that's probably not going to tax more than a few percent of a powerful card.
I hate wasting power and having my computer slow down, but I hate forgoing progress in the name of keeping my computer at 100% readiness rather than 99.5% =P
I hate wasting power and having my computer slow down, but I hate forgoing progress in the name of keeping my computer at 100% readiness rather than 99.5% =P
Yea and because I'm a gamer, I do alt tab out to use other applications while waiting for the game to start or what not so having the card keep the game loaded as well having these features would just reduce the power that much more, but still honestly Vista is the best OS, at least for me Linux and mac both blow...for what I like doing but there good for other things...
That's the fun thing about options. You always have the option to use certain features. I find it unlikely that, any time in the near future, it will be mandatory for your computer to dedicate graphics hardware acceleration to standard desktop apps. So you can keep the "use hardware acceleration" checkbox un-ticked and let other people enjoy it, at the expense of .1 seconds more when they do the very rare act of switching between a 3D game and another desktop application.
Exactly <3 Though I am still needing to pick up a copy of 64 bit vista, right now I actually can't play any games or do anything properly and if you read this, http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/393331/you'd see that my RAM is being a total bitch, but I have Corsair Dominator 8500 DDR2 in the mail, will arrive on june 10th...untill then I just have to resist the urge of throwing my current ram out the window...
DX10 works for 32-bit and 64-bit Vista. There is a 64-bit build of XP, but I doubt they sell it many places, support isn't the best, and it's really just a stop-gap between XP and Vista. If you know enough to make 64-bit XP work well for you, you know enough to make 64-bit Vista work well for you.
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