Unique features

[Beth Katz]

I don't usually use other browsers, so I'm not sure what's
truly unique. However, I wanted to clarify the "drawer with
the workspaces" comment. As you're reading and becoming familiar
with OmniWeb, realize that the things in the drawer are tabs.
Workspaces are something different.

In OmniWeb, a user can have multiple workspaces. Each workspace
is like a document that groups together related information.
For example, I have a workspace for course web page management,
another for a web site I manage, and then another for my default
browsing.

Each workspace can save its current state when OmniWeb quits or
it can revert back to a known snapshot state. In my case, my
default reverts but the others remember where they were when I
was last using them.

Each workspace can have many browser windows. A browser window
may have tabs in the drawer. Each tab displays a web page and
has its own forward and backward information. Changing web pages
is as simple as clicking on a tab. The tabs provide a visual
index into loaded web pages.

By having a default workspace with many tabs in its remembered
state, whenever I launch OmniWeb, I get several pages loading at
once. I can glance through them and see what's loaded and some
status information. This default is easily rearranged and changed,
so it seems more useful to me than a personal web portal page.

Another feature I find helpful is site-specific preferences.
I tend to block images on page load. However, I have some sites
where the images are why I'm there. I can allow those sites to
load the images while blocking the vast majority of images on
other sites. If some site insists on a particular browser, I can
have OmniWeb present as some other browser but only to that site.

Beth Katz

On Jan 4, 2006, at 3:26 PM, Richard Bullen wrote:
>> I use OmniWeb 90% of the time because of its unique features
>
> As a matter of interest, since I'm evaluating OW at the moment,  
> what are
> the unique features of the application? Excluding the drawer with the
> workspaces.
>
> Richard Bullen
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