OmniWeb release notes.
Glenn Brown
gbrown at ctr.columbia.edu
Fri Mar 4 16:08:07 PST 1994
Beautimus! Here are some suggestions. I tried not to produce duplicates of earlier suggestions.
When I double-click under the left half of the AlGore Icon in the NCSA demo page, I get the Smarr picture instead.
Clicking under the right half of AL works OK.
After widening the window, going to NCSA Mosaic Home, then to NCSA Mosaic Demo, then back to NCSA
Mosaic Home, the cute "-=>o<=-" dividers are mangled. The mangling appears after double-clicking NCSA Mosaic
Demo Document but before that document appears.
#define "Let me" "Please empower me with the ability to"
// a space conserving macro, as if the writers of a WWW browser are conserned
// about conserving every last byte of net bandwidth!
Let me Print!!!
Let me drag and drop sounds and images.
Let me copy the sound or image associated with a button by selecting the button and typing command-c.
Don't redownload files that have already been downloaded. (E.g. if one double-clicks twice on AL in NCSA
Mosaic Demo Document, give the user the option of reopening al.gif rather than redownloading.
It would be really cool if OmniWeb kept a semipermanant cache on disk of the most frequently visited nodes. I
don't know if HTML supports the needed queries, but you could use the disk cached version of the file has the same
creation date as the remote file.
The disk cache would dramatically increase performance in the neighborhood of a user's home page, and would
dramatically decrease the load on servers with popular home pages.
If there is a disk cache, the user should be allowed to set the size of the cache.
Clicking on the center names in the map in http://hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov/NASA_homepage.html does not work.
Dragging the URL arrows from one well to the other does nothing, but does not cause the icons to slide back to its
source, as it should according to the NeXT UI guidelines.
Clicking the button with the spinning globe does nothing. This button should be disabled and have no border
unless clicking it does something.
Thanks again for the studly program,
--Glenn
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