Windows Vista's IE 7 Imitates OmniWeb

[Jon Hicks]

> but we're still not at the add-new-features point just yet.

:o(

> We'll have an update on OmniWeb 5.5 soon.

:oD

Cheers,
Jon

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On 7 Jan 2006, at 01:14, Scott Maier wrote:

>
> You can watch the keynote here:
>
> <http://www.microsoft.com/events/executives/billgates.mspx>
>
> But it is quite painful :-)  Aside from being quite boring and  
> awkward at times, it is also frustrating to see them fawning over a  
> lot of stuff that has been around in some form on Mac OS X for years.
>
> The Windows Media Player sneak peek did look kind of interesting  
> though, as it will contain a few features for library browsing that  
> I wish were in iTunes.
>
> In any case, there is a brief demo if IE7 as well, and the  
> thumbnail mode for tabs replaces the page you are currently viewing  
> with a icon-view-like page of thumbnails.  It's not a _bad_ thing,  
> but not as good as being able to always have them on screen, IMO.   
> Something similar to the page of thumbnails and/or something a  
> little more Expose-like has been discussed for OmniWeb before, but  
> we're still not at the add-new-features point just yet.
>
> We'll have an update on OmniWeb 5.5 soon.
>
> Oh, and iRider is the name of the first browser I ever saw with tab  
> thumbnails.  It's based on the IE engine in Windows.
> <http://www.irider.com/>
>
>
>  - Scott
>
>
> On Jan 5, 2006, at 1:04 PM, Derek Currie wrote:
>
>> This is kind of fun, so I thought I would share it.
>>
>> The great David Pogue posted a Circuits email article this  
>> afternoon from CES, where he will be doing reporting all week. In  
>> today's email (which you can access at <http://www.nytimes.com/ 
>> circuitsemail>) he discusses the Bill Gates & cohorts keynote from  
>> last night. Several aspects of Vista that were directly "stolen  
>> from Apple" are pointed out. It is all quite amusing.
>>
>> But at one point Mr. Pogue made an apparent error. He had begun a  
>> section in the article discussing ideas in Vista that actually  
>> appeared to be original. Sadly, in one case he was apparently  
>> mistaken. Here is the relevant paragraph:
>>
>>> * Thumbnail tabbed browsing. Internet Explorer will finally get  
>>> tabbed browsing (a feature that Firefox, Safari and other  
>>> browsers have had for years), in which you can keep multiple Web  
>>> pages open at once, all in the same window; you switch from one  
>>> to the next by clicking little file-folder tabs at the top. But  
>>> in the Vista browser, you can also view all your tabbed Web pages  
>>> as window miniatures, so that you can jump to one according to  
>>> what it looks like (rather than just its name). A great idea.
>>
>> Window miniatures is a great idea isn't it!
>>
>> And it originated in OmniWeb years ago.
>>
>> I sent Mr. Pogue a note about this fact and offered to send him  
>> screen shots if they would be helpful. Of course I have not yet  
>> seen the Vista implementation of window miniatures, but so far I  
>> am not hearing anything I can't already do in OmniWeb.
>>
>> Share and Enjoy!
>>
>> :-Derek
>>
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