UI suggestions

[Eugene Lee]

1) In OmniWeb Preferences, when selecting a preference, the window goes
blank for about a half-second before the preference actually appears,
and this gives an impression that it's slow.  To change this impression,
do what Apple did and change the intermediate blank window so that it
says "Loading <preference>..."

2) Command-W and Command-Q are right next to each other.  I've had more
than my fair share of accidentally quitting OmniWeb when I really wanted
to close the frontmost window.  To fix this quirk, add to the Interface
preference a setting to confirm the Command-Q event by asking the user,
"Are you sure you want to quit OmniWeb?" or something like that.

3) I still have a problem with the cookie behavior.  I usually reject
cookies unless I choose to accept them.  There are several problems I
see with OmniWeb's workings.  For one, this ends up creating a huge list
of denied cookies.  Second, once a site's cookie is on the rejected
list, if I change my mind and choose to accept cookies from that site,
it's almost impossible to do so.  You'd have to look through the cookie
list, hopefully find the site's domain, and change the default action.
If the site is using cookies set by another domain, you'd end up having
to look at the HTTP headers for all the HTML elements on that site's
page or scan for appropriate META tags.  The other way is to go through
the cookie list and delete *every* domain that is marked as rejected,
and this becomes even more tedious with a huge list.

I think cookie behavior should be changed to an deny/allow method, kinda
like firewalls, with the following rules:

	by default, deny from all;
	if cookie is on the allow list
	{
		accept it;
	}
	else if cookie is on the deny list
	{
		reject it;
	}
	else
	{
		ask user what to do;
			accept it, put on allow list;
			ignore it, put it on deny list;
			ignore it (don't put it on any list);
	}

4) There's still a visual problem with HTML pages with TITLEs so long
that the listing under the Window menu puts up a menu screen that's as
wide as the entire screen.  I think this is still listed as a b8 bug.
What's even wierder is that if the browser window is minimized into the
Dock, scanning through the Dock and coming up to the minimized browser
window puts this huge string of text that reflects the TITLE!


Hope these suggestions are useful, and thanks for all the great work you
folks have done with it!


-- 
Eugene Lee
eugene at anime.net