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Weblog:   Icons, Usability and Computers
Subject:   paradigm shift?
Date:   2006-01-24 21:58:07
From:   fryke
The way out would have to be a paradigm shift, where Apple defines the icon for "web browser" and puts it into the Dock. You could still install, say, Firefox, but it would automatically take the "web browser" icon and the name would probably be "web browser" or "WWW" or "World Wide Web". Similarly, the "mail" icon in the Dock would – should the user want to – launch "Thunderbird" or "Entourage" should the user prefer one of those applications to Mail.app.
In the current way, with competition comes the distinguishisification problem. ;) ... Web browsers as well as newsreader apps seem to think they need to show a "world" or something about "navigating". Well: I guess so do GPS applications and Google Earth etc. ...