Off-line Cache Reading/Pruning Request Plus

[Jake Robb]

Hi James.

I'm surprised that nobody has already responded to this, but here goes:

A somewhat whimsical solution to your whimsical request for scaling pages:
Open a new window with the page you want to view.  Show the tab drawer.
Expand the width of the tab drawer.  You'll note that OW fully renders a
scaled version of the page in the tab drawer thumbnail, no matter how big or
small you make the drawer.  Change the drawer width to scale in and out.
Drawback: you can't scroll the thumbnail.

OmniWeb is fully AppleScript-enabled, so you ought to be able to do your
automated login scripts that way.

There is some .Mac bookmark synching, which I have not experimented with,
since I only have one Mac.  Someone who knows more might be able to say
whether you can sync between OW and Safari using this mechanism.

5.1 brings support for themes.  (Incidentally, themes might make it possible
to eliminate favicons from the Favorites bar.  Anyone know?)  The only
alternative OW theme I'm aware of is John Hicks' theme, available here:

http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/587/hicksdesign-theme-for-omniweb-5

Which OW commands do you want on the contextual menus?  Aren't most of them
already there?  (I'm a keyboard user, personally)

The rest of your suggestions sound decent.  There are tools out there that
already do a few of them (wGet, for instance, can capture a page and
everything it links down to X levels).




James W.Greenidge wrote:

> Happy New Year!
> 
> I just registered for an OmniWeb license, so we'll see how far my
> defection from Firefox goes!
> 
> One feature I miss from iCab which OW ought try is off-line history
> cache reading, even after you quit OW and come back in off-line. You
> can literally save and review off-line an entire web page which you've
> previously surfed thru in iCab. Pretty please, OmniWeb dudes? Maybe OW
> fans can order the mother Starbucks over there to deliver you guys some
> fancy java as a little treat inducement, eh? Icing on the cake would be
> the ability to actually prune unwanted specific pages within your
> cache.
> 
> Another nice option would be to omit display of favicons on the
> Favorites bar.
> 
> Programmable hot-keys for things like open new page as background tab,
> etc.
> 
> This one is mostly whimsical: the ability to scale the size of a
> window's contents like a magnifier or shrinker.
> 
> Another whimsical one, but not sure if it's in a browser's domain: The
> ability to create/record auto-scripts/macros to log-in, open and check
> in-boxes of non-POP Mail services like .Mail and Yahoo and others.
> 
> Automatic Safari/OW bookmark synchronization (including histories?).
> 
> Haven't checked to see if it's already featured, but the ability to
> change OW tool bar icons or themes.
> 
> Create thumbnails for images dragged from a window and onto the desktop.
> 
> Keyboard-less mouse-button only contextual-menu type pop-up menus with
> OW commands and options.
> 
> Ability to capture an entire web page down to X-levels.
> 
> ***
> Keep up the great work!
> 
> James Greenidge
> 
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