
Yeah, really. The word-processing metaphor will go down well with users on mobiles, Kindles…
by Alec Muffett
Of course, it may cause problems with people using that key combination to remove focus from a virtual machine window.
Maybe they should have chosen something more obscure, “Ctrl-Alt-Del” maybe? 😉
(BTW, the episode Alan is referring to is “Logopolis”)
…and another friend writes:
“The Master and the Doctors TARDS’s on top of / inside each other first happened in the Pertwee era. (The Time Monster, 1972). It happened again in Logopolis, the final Tom Baker story (1981).”
Have you tried it on a mobile device? Most mobile devices identify themselves as such, so entirely possible they don’t do this there. As well as which, many people use FB apps on mobile devices, they don’t use the website.
Better than that – the new UI _hangs_ the Kindle browser.
(I meant ‘most mobile browsers’, not ‘most mobile devices’.)
Actually, this new behaviour annoyed me so much that I wrote a quick Chrome UserScript to undo it..
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