Firefox 2.0 Theme Revealed
Who says OSS can't look good?
Thursday, July 13, 2006 by Zoomba | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Yesterday, early mockups of the new UI for the 2.0 release of the popular web browser, Mozilla Firefox, were posted to the Mozilla wiki. Three vendors (Radiant Core, Meta and Raiz Labs) submitted proposals for the new theme, with Radiant Core winning out with their design.
The requirements for the new theme were simple:
- respect OS native look and feel
- appear modern and contemporary with current web and client apps
- appear consistent across platforms
- have minimum to zero code impact requirements (ie: all CSS and icon work)
You can see screenshots of the new visual elements on the Mozilla wiki page.
Keikonium
Reply #2 Thursday, July 13, 2006 3:29 PM
Reply #2 Thursday, July 13, 2006 3:29 PM
I like the new look. The tabs remind me way to much of Opera (from what I remember anyway 
) but they do look great. Everything seems alot more glossy and shadowed which is nice. I imagine this would look GREAT with the WMC Royale visual theme. I liked the "go" buttons (at the end of URL, and Search bars) better when they were seperate, however. The glow effect on RSS is nice 
.
Good job to team Radiant Core for being selected.
To bad there was no preview of the other 2 teams designs
.
(Also, couldn't this pretty much be achieved with a skin on FF 1.5)
) but they do look great. Everything seems alot more glossy and shadowed which is nice. I imagine this would look GREAT with the WMC Royale visual theme. I liked the "go" buttons (at the end of URL, and Search bars) better when they were seperate, however. The glow effect on RSS is nice 
.Good job to team Radiant Core for being selected
.To bad there was no preview of the other 2 teams designs
.(Also, couldn't this pretty much be achieved with a skin on FF 1.5
)
c242
Reply #3 Thursday, July 13, 2006 4:01 PM
Reply #3 Thursday, July 13, 2006 4:01 PM
Button-Icons are still ugly... Standard with a glare. So what ?
RPGFX
Reply #4 Thursday, July 13, 2006 10:53 PM
Reply #4 Thursday, July 13, 2006 10:53 PM
Who really cares what it looks like? Aren't we all just going to skin it anyway? I know I am...
I know I am...
thomassen
Reply #5 Saturday, July 15, 2006 5:26 PM
Reply #5 Saturday, July 15, 2006 5:26 PM
I didn't think it was that much of an improvement...
Aquamonkey
Reply #6 Saturday, July 15, 2006 11:55 PM
Yeah it's pretty ordinary
Reply #6 Saturday, July 15, 2006 11:55 PM
| I didn't think it was that much of an improvement... |
Yeah it's pretty ordinary
PurrBall
Reply #8 Sunday, July 16, 2006 9:44 AM
Reply #8 Sunday, July 16, 2006 9:44 AM
I like how the browser window is a screenshot of OSX and the border is Windows.
thomassen
Reply #9 Sunday, July 16, 2006 10:04 AM
eh? what part of that is OSX?
Reply #9 Sunday, July 16, 2006 10:04 AM
| I like how the browser window is a screenshot of OSX and the border is Windows. |
eh? what part of that is OSX?
thomassen
Reply #10 Sunday, July 16, 2006 10:05 AM
Reply #10 Sunday, July 16, 2006 10:05 AM
oh wait. I see it now. That also explains the odd anti-aliasing of the text in the screenshot.
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Reply #1 Thursday, July 13, 2006 3:25 PM