UI suggestions

Timothy J. Wood tjw at omnigroup.com
Wed Jan 10 17:48:31 PST 2001


> [...] do what Apple did and change the intermediate blank window so 
> that it
> says "Loading <preference>..."

   Yeah, that's a good suggestion.

> [...] 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?"

   This too.

> 3) I still have a problem with the cookie behavior.
>  [...]
> I think cookie behavior should be changed to an deny/allow method, kinda
> like firewalls, with the following rules:
> [...]

   This would certainly be nice for advanced users, but most of the Mac 
OS market prefers simplicity of use over this kind of flexibility.  This 
isn't to say that we won't do something like this ... it just isn't on 
the top of the list.  I can certainly see this being useful, but I 
expect that most people are going to see that panel a very few times 
since they'll set the behavior to always accept.  Actually, the default 
setting now is to always accept cookies, so only web weenies will ever 
turn the panel on ;)


> 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!

   Doh!  I thought we'd fixed this.

-tim



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