OmniWeb 0.7.3

[Peter Byrnes]

I've spent the better part of today playing with it, and I've been  
generally pleased.  The increased functionality (particularly with  
regard to ISMAPs and forms) is good to see, as is the greater  
integration into the NeXT way of doing things.

But, being a pain-in-the-butt user, I do have a few gripes (wouldn't ya  
know):

1.  I like having the ability to pick my background color, but it would  
be nice if there were a color panel accessible from the menu, so I  
could select my color and drag it in.

2.  I still can't delete bookmarks from the bookmarks page without  
going in and hacking the ASCII.  From a user's standpoint, this is  
non-trivial.

3.  If you're taking a vote, put me down on the "no blue diamonds" part  
of the ledger.  Although I realize that this is part of the integration  
into "the NeXT way of doing things" (which I praised above), and  
relieves users of the burden (?) of double-clicking, one of the *other*  
pieces of "the NeXT way of doing things" is the aesthetic beauty and  
customization of text that is read on the screen, and this goes  
completely out the window where the diamonds are concerned.  If the  
links in a document are in a list, making the diamonds active bullet  
points, then they are just tolerable.  But in a paragraph, they're  
hideous.  They break up the line of the text, and don't scale to the  
appropriate font size.  In short, they make the text hell to read, and  
the increased functionality they give doesn't seem worth it.

4.  In an attempt to see how forms were represented, I went through the  
list of examples in /Mosaic_Docs/fill-out-forms/overview.html, which I  
accessed through a local copy across the LAN, rather than access them  
at uiuc.edu.  On several attempts, OmniWeb died after I viewed the  
eleventh example in a row, no matter which ones I chose from the list.   
This might be a local problem, but I'm not quite sure how.

Thanks for your time and attention.

Peter Byrnes