Safari-influenced feature requests

[Ben Isenegger]

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

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> - 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.

Okay, here's some of my like/hate things about OW and Safari:

I like that OW shows a status bar at the bottom of the browser window 
that shows the page elements as they load, but then disappears when the 
page has loaded (At least, this is how I think it should work, but in 
practise the status bar disappears well before the page has finished 
loading). This gives as much screen real estate to the *content* as 
possible (sounds like Steve Jobs describing Safari!)

> - Somehow synchronize bookmarks between OW and Safari.

It would be nice to see Apple provide a central repository of bookmarks 
that any app can access and modify (password protected, though, and 
Keychain aware).

> - 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.

As Scott noted, this can be changed by modifying the defaults thingo. I 
have modified mine such that there is no cascading. I like this 
behaviour. I hate cascading windows! CMD+~ allows window cycling, so 
there's no problem with windows on top of each other.

I'm not all that keen on tabbed browsing, except that it saves CPU 
cycles. I'd like to see a quasi-tabbed browser feature in OW, much like 
Preview shows multiple pages in a drawer to the left or right (someone 
did a mockup of this recently). Or perhaps OmniGroup will blow us away 
with a super elegant solution to tabbed browsing!

I love OW's ability to block images loading from advertising sites (or 
any site I specify, with wildcards!)

I would like to see OW support Option+MouseWheelScrolling to scroll 
horizontally (for those of us with multi-button/wheel mouses). Safari 
supports this already.

Regards

Ben