3 Easy Interface Improvements

[Scott]

Charles,


On Tuesday, May 7, 2002, at 03:13  PM, Charles J Risher III wrote:

> 1 - A Go Menu
>
> Add a Go menu like Explorer and Netscape have. The tiny arrows under 
> the Back and Forward buttons are difficult to click, and the History 
> window takes too long and doesn't list the pages in order individually.

I have entered this as a feature request and we'll consider it for a 
future version of OmniWeb.  As far as I know we plan to make some 
changes to History for version 5.0 so hopefully what we come up with for 
that version will help you out.


> 2 - Bookmarks To Bottom Of List
>
> Have bookmarks go to the bottom of list when dragged into folders in 
> the Favorites Bar and the Bookmarks window as they do when Add to 
> Bookmarks is used.

I have filed a bug on this; it certainly is inconsistent behavior.  
Adding a bookmark via the menu/toolbar item is the only time we file at 
the bottom of a list.  Any time we're filing in a subfolder it goes to 
the top.


> 3 - Select Address Field
>
> Make the entire address automatically selected when clicking in the 
> Address Field.  99% of the time I click there it is to type in a new 
> address, and it is annoying to have to keep triple clicking or clicking 
> and dragging to select the address.  If you prefer it the other way, 
> please at least make this an option.

You have no doubt seen how many people feel about this already :-)  We 
tend to prefer our current, standard text field behavior.  As others 
have mentioned, there are a few ways you can easily select the entire 
URL:

1.  Use command-L
2.  Triple-click in the field
3.  Click in the field either before or after the text that is currently 
there and then drag down and slightly towards the opposite end of the 
location bar to have it select all text without you having to drag the 
entire length of the URL.


Thanks for your feedback!


Sincerely,


Scott
Support Engineer
Omni Group