Ughhhh! Damnit! I was okay with facebook scripting totally sucking on by firefox at home, since at least I could access it from work. But come on – it sucks bigtime.
For one, the browser looks God-awful ugly! You know, all the wobbly windows and rotating-cube-desktop is worthless if my browser isn’t usable (there’s a difference between showing an ugly browser with translucency and an opage browser which us usable). The windows version of FireFox is much much better looking. Considering that they have all the sources to KDE and GNOME and all the X-variants and all the thousands of distros custom patches, you’d have thought the UX would have been a lot better than the puny common windows that has the same lame API on thousands of machines.
What really got me ticked off right now is that I’m in the middle of a poker tournament on facebook and the shitty thing won’t open. The Javascript has always been unreliable – works sometimes, and doesn’t at other times. But it was okay. So much for “reliable just-works experiences”.
I don’t give a damn if this is facebook’s fault or FireFox’s fault. I want it fixed! If you can spare time and energy harassing and terrorising Apple for their working iPhones, I can expect that you at least pretend to show your users some amount of attention.
Flash doesn’t work. I don’t care that it’s not an open format. Again, prove ESR’s (I dare not say Stallman’s because the man prefers a non-working Machine if it gives him the freedom to prevent it from working – I on the other hand, _need_ a working machine) principles and create a common working format that guarantees developers some semblance of a platform and deploy it and people will use it. Don’t dare give me some half-assed reason in the comments section about why you can’t do it. Either show me a working alternative, or STFU!
And please don’t insult yourself or my intelligence by giving me the “It works for me!” answers. I’m a developer who has a hundred bugs to resolve at work to ensure my code is resilient to whims of wierd users. Spare me!
