Re: a web-browser UI concept

[Rogelio Serrano]

On 3/2/07, Graham J Lee <leeg@thaesofereode.info> wrote:
> 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 ;-)

Well in my other projects i just got rid of the menu ;-) Of course i
ended up with a whole screen non-WIMP interface but it worked well.

> Cheers,
> Graham.
>
>
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