blue sky:
user interface
Applications can benefit from a sense of history. The tactful
recollection of previously used settings can make the difference between
an application that is a joy to use and one that makes you want to heave
your computer out the nearest window. Mozilla is no exception.
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url completion
| Updated May 16th |
| Submitted by Michael Bayne
<mdb@go2net.com>
to UI. |
Mozilla attempts various forms of URL completion of words typed into
the "Location" field as well as the Win95 client's attempts at completing
from a recently history of by-hand entered URLs. Both of these services
end up lacking and some different ideas for improvement are summarized in
this article.
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Mozilla uses Motif in it's Unix implementation, but it's not free and
therefore prevents the casual developer from building and playing with
Mozilla. Here Paul talks about some of our options in removing this
constraint.
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A large portion of the Mozilla code base is devoted to the user
interface front end (or FE). A perfect world would have these FEs as
simply implementations of an abstract concept that was realized in the
back end code. This is not a perfect world, but that doesn't mean that we
can't try to get a little closer.
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power tools and rubber knives
| April 20th |
| Submitted by Paul Phillips
<paulp@go2net.com>
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A user interface that scaled to the expertise of the user would help
to smooth over the inevitable conflict between a browser my mom can use
and one that incorporates the millions of features that will be creeping
in on behalf of programmers world wide.
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Bookmark management is a definite mess. In this little diatribe I'd
like to outline a few of their shortcomings and suggest a few things to
make our bookmarking lives easier.
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Ideas will be moved into these archives from the
main page as they are replaced by newer (and maybe even better) ideas. So
start thinking.