OmniWeb 5 and dedicated status bar

[Forrest Corbett]

I like the page displaying to all edges of the window (except the top, 
of course). As far as following Aqua apps, most also have it so if you 
click on text next to a check box or radio button, the button is 
selected. This isn't the case on the web. Most also have it so if you  
hit command+left arrow in a text field, your cursor is sent to the 
beginning of the line whereas web browsers send one back a page. Most 
Aqua apps also do not leave the interface to the top of a view window 
in position as it scrolls.

In other words, many people are used to the inconsistencies in web 
browsers. From a design aspect, technically having navigation on the 
right side of the page is more intuitive. However, due to the web 
normally using navigation on the left, people not find it awkward to  
have it on the right. People are conditioned to what's there...

Of course, it's up to a good designer to pull off the different in a 
good way.

-Forrest

On Jan 7, 2004, at 3:37 PM, Michael Brewer wrote:

> On Jan 7, 2004, at 6:06 PM, Tim Omernick wrote:
>
>> Why not the bottom?  :-)
>
> Most proper apps (that means Aqua apps :)) have it positioned below 
> the toolbar. It looks better there, it's located closer to the other 
> information/navigation controls of the window, and it leaves the 
> bottom- and right-most edges for scroll bars when needed and a nice 
> clean content pane when no scroll bars are required.
>
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