Improving OmniWeb

[Andreas Åkre Solberg]

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Hi, I have been using OmniWeb for a few days and have a list of feature 
request which I think would greatly improve the user experience of 
OmniWeb. Let us know what you think about the features below, and add 
one of your own to the list if you like.

- - General
     - Newer WebCore
           This is obvious, and OmniWeb know it's serious, and they work
           with it. I mention it on the top to indicate that this will
           always be the most important feature request.
     - Sidebar
           Opera and Firefox have it. And Safari with Saft. Personally I
           do not miss it that much, but some users might do.
     - Inline search
           OmniWeb have support for inline link search, but I have not
           found a way to do a general inline search. What about doing
           an inline general search when holding down alt button, and
           link search when not, and a preference option to switch the
           two. Opera support this native, and there are at least three
           different plugins to Safari that add this feature.
     - Do not refresh front tab
           Should be an option to not refresh the tab in the front, even
           if the page has a META-ENV refresh tag attached to it which
           most newspapers have. It is annoing when the page refreshes
           when you are in the middle of the page. The Saft plugin to
           safari has this feature.
- - Crash reporter
     - Should send the mail automatically
           Without starting up Mail.app.
- - Tabs
     - The little "X" button you click to close a tab is a bit too small.
           Reported by John Gruber. My suggestion is to add support for
           deleting a tab by holding in example Alt+Shift down when
           clicking on a tab. Opera 7 support this behaviour by
           shift-clicking.
     - Shrink and stretch the height of tabs.
           Depending of the height of the window and the number of tabs.
           John Gruber has mentioned this earlier:
           daringfireball.netÑomniweb_5_public_beta
           <http://daringfireball.net/2004/02/omniweb_5_public_beta>
- - Site Preferences and ad block
     - Should be possible to disable plugins
           The way you can disable javascript. Currently you cannot
           disable windows media player or shockwave plugins for a
           specific site, without disabling it globally. PithHelmet has
           this.
     - Individual block list
           Should be a block list for each site preferences individually
           in addition to the global one.
     - Synchronization
           Synchronization of bookmarks via WEBDAV is a brilliant
           feature. I would like if OmniWeb moved the Site Preference
           section away from the com.omnigroup.OmniWeb5.plist file, and
           into a separate plist file which optionally can be stored
           over WEBDAV. Maybe saving workspaces info to WEBDAV could be
           done in the same batch :D
     - Improved "Filter Image"
           When Ctrl+clicking on an image you can add the url of the
           image to the block list with the option "Filter Image".
           Instead this should popup a dialog a input field entering the
           url, and regex-ed url preselected. This way the user can
           change parts of the url to .* to match more generally. Look
           at the AdBlock extention to firefox.
     - Block elements from "Page Info"
           I use the page info feature a lot to get a  overview of what
           elements exist on a page. But there is no way to see the URL
           of each element which is crucial to ad blocking. The Page
           Info section contains buttons: "Display", "View Source" and
           "Save as...". There should be a button like "Filter element"
           or "block element" to add the url of the element to the block
           list. This should result in a popup box with the URL the way
           I described on the section - Improved "Filter Image".
- - Bookmarks
     - Check all bookmarks for dead links
           A menu command manually executed to go through all bookmarks
           to check whether they are dead or not, and setting status to
           "Unreachable" for dead bookmarks. It is important that this
           command do not set "Unviewed content" status.
     - Status for RSS bookmarks/feeds
           It is a problem that each RSS entry which is new get status
           "Unviewed content". I want to subscribe to a lot of RSS
           feeds, and only scroll through them to see if there is
           something interesting. This way at average I got a couple of
           hundred RSS entries with status "Unviewed content". This
           result in a situation where all my regular sites that I watch
           for changes drowns. My suggestion on how to approach this
           problem is to add another status type for bookmarks like
           "Unviewed RSS entry" or similar with a separate entry, and a
           separate smart-folder in bookmarks view to show them all.

- -- 
Andreas Åkre Solberg
http://solweb.no

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