Google has a serious quality problem. Check out the link to the Google Groups page...
1.) Does not scroll with the mouse wheel unless you are in 'certain areas' of the page (aka broken).
2.) They are using Frames, like this is 1999
3.) Instead of easy-to-read button names, they are icons of unknown purpose.
4.) Why all the wasted white space?
Google is a bunch of college smart alecs... you see that in the tone of their posts. But sites like Google Groups are garbage.
You can scroll on the parts of the page... that scroll. The side bar and app bar are fixed (just like in GMail and a bunch of other Google properties now) so naturally the mouse wheel won't scroll them or the page.
Not that I use Google Groups / Usenet from a browser often, but here it goes...
#1 and #2 Google should consider the scroll from any UI component; however, I have to wonder where you have drawn such a conclusion to 1999 UI/UX. You are seriously against fixed-position controls?
#3 You must have an axe to grind with Google and/or Gmail. At Gmail, the label-less buttons were daunting for all of one minute. In the case of Google Groups, the buttons are quite obvious and ubiquitous with their other properties. Again, if you at all use Google Apps, the buttons are a non-issue; are we going to complain about the obvious purpose of the "home" button on an iPhone?
The buttons should have labels. Google shouldn't assume every person who log's onto any Google app will know what they mean.Even though I'm a power user and I still prefer labels to icons.
1.) Does not scroll with the mouse wheel unless you are in 'certain areas' of the page (aka broken). 2.) They are using Frames, like this is 1999 3.) Instead of easy-to-read button names, they are icons of unknown purpose. 4.) Why all the wasted white space?
Google is a bunch of college smart alecs... you see that in the tone of their posts. But sites like Google Groups are garbage.