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blue sky: user interface

a sense of history
May 30th
Submitted by Michael Bayne <mdb@go2net.com> to UI.

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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which widgets wish?
April 20th
Submitted by Paul Phillips <paulp@go2net.com> to UI.

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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fe, fie, foe
April 20th
Submitted by Paul Phillips <paulp@go2net.com> to UI.

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> to UI.

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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good book marking
April 19th
Submitted by Paul Phillips <paulp@go2net.com> to UI.

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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User Interface Archive
a sense of history
url completion
which widgets wish?
fe, fie, foe
power tools and rubber knives
good book marking