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Re: a web-browser UI concept
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Graham J Lee |
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Re: a web-browser UI concept |
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Fri, 2 Mar 2007 10:36:44 +0000 |
On 1 Mar 2007, at 22:19, Riccardo wrote:
Hi,
The toolbar separated from the document view is novel (OmniWeb
<4.0 had the bookmarks inspector as a separate window, but IIRC
that was it). OTOH, how much sense does that make? For things
like zoom, help etc. it's fine. But buttons like forward, back,
history act _on a document_ so separating them from the document
view seems off to me. Of course, your kilometrage may vary.
Novel? oh, please... My long-time favourite browser Mosaic had a
detachable toolbar since long, long (on unix).
OK, I didn't know that. Interesting.
Although at first maybe a bit confusing for people accustomed to
other browsers, it works pretty well. also a popupmenu with all
open documents (on mac) and the *lack* of tabs made the whole
experience pretty interesting.
Yes, that's one of the areas where the NSDocument architecture and
tabbed browsing don't really intersect well...the Window menu ;-)
Cheers,
Graham.