Safari-influenced feature requests

[Scott J. Kramer]

All smart suggestions, Eugene.  I'll comment on a few...

--On Saturday, January 11, 2003 17:10 -0600 Eugene Lee <eugene at anime.net> 
wrote:

> - A toggle enables a status bar at the bottom of the browser window that
>   does "the normal thing" and shows a link destination, browser status,
>   or JavaScript window.status.

I'd prefer it be optionally movable to the top of the browser window
(e.g. under the page address bar) so it's still visible when I move
the bottom of a window past the bottom edge of the screen.  My brief
experience with Safari's status bar at the bottom has made it clear
it belongs at the top to fit my style of window shuffling and access.

> - A Safari/playlist-like bookmark manager.  Since OW does not open
>   multiple bookmark folders simultaneously, a single window interface
>   makes more sense.

In the short term, please make the current bookmarks window/drawer be
keyboard scrollable for consistency with every other window that has a
scrollbar(!)  Even after a year's use of OW I *still* dumbly attempt
scrolling with <fn>-<arrow> or <command>-<arrow> keys, grrr. :-)

> - Somehow synchronize bookmarks between OW and Safari.

... while preserving the notes and change data of OW bookmarks.

> - Support more aggressive caching.

I'm wondering how much disk caching has to do with the extraordinary
speed claims being made about Safari.  Some pages it accesses the
first time take as long or longer to fully load and render than OW
or Chimera.  That's with a decent broadband connection.

> - New browser windows cascade should diagonally from top-left to
>   bottom-right, like in days of old.  I really dislike the current
>   behavior because it's harder to select rearmost browser windows.

I agree, tho' would new windows be resized to fit within vertical
screen size (and bottom-Dock constrained?) or be partially off the
bottom of the screen?  If the latter, it relates to my wanting the
status bar at the top of windows.

>   It makes me prefer Mozilla-ish ugly tabbed windows.

For an alternative, check out curmi's mockup in:

 
<http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?s=16b5db05d4d45da3fa8c1d462faf7814
&threadid=125205&perpage=50&highlight=curmi&pagenumber=3>

... which I found via the "Better than tabs..." thread in:

  <http://discussions.info.apple.com/WebX?128@122.BpwVaCMAgqm.4@.3bbdc1f6>

Interesting topic.

One new item to add:

- Add "Open Selection With" menu, similiar to Safari's "Open Page With"
  in the Debug menu and current "Open URL in <browser>" in the Services
  menu, but more generalized.

-sjk