Safari-influenced feature requests

[Scott M.]

On Saturday, January 11, 2003, at 03:10  PM, Eugene Lee wrote:

> With so much attention on Safari, it's made me think of a few things
> that would spruce up OmniWeb.
>
> - A single click on the "lightning bolt" URL icon in the browser window
>   toolbar selects the entire URL (faster than a triple click).
>
> - Drag a text selection of a URL into the browser window causes that
>   window to open that URL.
>
> - 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.

Requests noted in our bug database.


> - Support the favicon.ico stuff.

This is coming.


> - Truncate really *long* titles of bookmarks to prevent the mega-wide
>   OmniWeb -> Windows menu.

I have looked into this before and it seems that when you're using the 
standard Window menu that the system provides (as we are) this is not 
possible.  I will re-visit this issue and see if there isn't something 
we can do here.


> - A Safari/playlist-like bookmark manager.  Since OW does not open
>   multiple bookmark folders simultaneously, a single window interface
>   makes more sense.
>
> - Somehow synchronize bookmarks between OW and Safari.
>
> - Support user-provided style sheets for font and color preferences.
>
> - Add the character encoding to OW's Browser menu (the equivalent
>   toolbar item takes up space I'd like to reclaim).

All noted, thanks.


> - Support more aggressive caching.

This is coming.


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

OmniWeb currently does this.  We open the first window, then cascade 
down and to the right.  When we reach the bottom of the screen (or the 
top of the dock) we start at the top again, and slightly to the right.  
OmniWeb does not do so well at maintaining a nice stack when some 
windows in the stack have been closed but this is something that we 
hope to improve upon.

The default that Lachlan mentioned is OAWindowCascadeDisabled which 
disables cascading altogether.  Perhaps you modified this?

The following Help URL lists all of OmniWeb's defaults:

omniweb:/Help/Topics/DefaultsList.html

If you have disabled window cascading simply type the following at the 
command prompt in a Terminal window:

defaults remove com.omnigroup.OmniWeb OAWindowCascadeDisabled


Sincerely,


Scott
Support Engineer
The Omni Group