OT: Pointless Friday Observation

Posted By : todd sharp Posted At : February 16, 2007 12:25 PM Posted In: Off Topic, CFEclipse

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Here's one for you to ponder (and if you're reading this you are as ready for the weekend as I am). I started using CFEclipse a few months ago as my full time coding environment. So far I'm pretty much in love with it. It takes a little getting used to, but since Mark Drew and crew (The Drew Crew?) do such a fantastic job I'm finding it easier to get comfortable with. So one of the things that truly sets it apart from your average text editor is the integrated browser. How freaking cool is that? The only thing that would make it better would be integrated Firefox, but hey we can't have everything! ;) Speaking of that integrated browser, here's my pointless observation. 90% of the time when I'm checking out my wonderful work in the integrated browser I find myself mousing back down to the taskbar to switch back to my editor when I'm ready to make some more changes. I can't help it - it's just habit!! I'm sure I'll break it in time. It's almost as bad as mousing to the upper left of the browser in IE 7 to refresh the page - every single time. I can not stand that! I mean bravo, you integrated the 'Go' and 'Refresh' buttons into one button, but 10+ years of browsing has told me that the refresh button is in the top left corner! Before someone brings it up, yes I know F5 will refresh - its just one of the keyboard shortcuts I never got in the habit of using. OK I'm done now - but feel free to share your random Friday observations.

Comments (3)

Steve Walker's Gravatar Pointless Comment - I actually hated IE7 when it first came out because of the refresh button and if your visited the IE Development Blog you would have seen that many others felt the same way. Microsoft wouldn't budge. I think their user exerience test groups got it right (pun intended). Now that I have been using it since beta 2, it is difficult to use a browser that has it on the left.

Andy J's Gravatar Hi Todd, did you know you can change the default Eclipse and CFEclipse browsers?

I've just added some quick how-to's on the CFE Wiki.

http://trac.cfeclipse.org/cfeclipse/wiki/SetUpDefa...

http://trac.cfeclipse.org/cfeclipse/wiki/ChangeEcl...

todd sharp's Gravatar I did not know that, thanks Andy! That might make a good (but quick) episode of CFE TV.