Re: [dev][surf] Next schedule?

pancake wrote:
> Few random things I want to comment in the thread..
>
> What about a tree of tabs? This way you can keep topics and
> hirearchically relations visually easy.
>
> One of the best features of firefox3 is the undo-tab :) And it's also
> nice to keep the browsing
> history on every tab (this is, when you open a web in a new window, you
> can track the source of
> it.. but as I see.. this can be represented in a single tree (that can
> be done in the filesystem).
>
> I tend to have zillions of tabs in my desktop box (because is something
> I never shutdown),
> but in my laptop I use surf (and sometimes firefox with less than 4-5
> tabs).
>
> I think that the massive use of tabs is because the web contains too
> much information and I use
> it as many others said, as a temporal stack of information that needs to
> be processed.
>
Sounds like there should be a way to push a link into a prioritized
queue, assigning it some priority. Then when you have time to process
the information, you just pop off the queue. It should be easy to add
links to this queue with keyboard or mouse in the browser. I also find
myself using my browser tabs as a queue, but it is an ugly solution to
the problem. I can admit that.
> Another nice feature of ff3 is the autocompletion bar that autocomplets
> with the titles of the
> webs, not only the url, This is a nice feature (but would be better if
> it could also index the
> contents of the web) to replace google and bookmarks.
>
> The only reason to use bookmarks (as I understand) is to put few direct
> links to make
> browsing experience of my mother easier. But I think that none of us use
> them because they
> are harder (and boring) to manage than the use you do of them. Neural
> networks are here
> to help...so the bookmarks should be generated automatically. And yeah,
> pron banned from
> the indexing ;)
>
> Another feature I miss in surf is the possibility to browse without the
> use of the mouse. There
> are plugins for firefox, which try to do the same as konqueror did in
> the past, that was adding
> a numeric value after each link. I think this can actually be done with
> user.js by parsing the DOM
> and adding a javascripting keybinding at every <a> tag.
>
> We can probably collect user.js scripts like this (or the one for
> banning spam) in the web page of
> surf, as 'extensions' or so. Dunno if javascript supports 'include'.
>
> In a suckless way i can imagine a keybinding (like bookmarking) to surf
> that stores the webpage
> in disk inside a directory under ~/.surf, this way it is possible to
> grep for keywords inside the
> directory and retrieve the original url or load the statically stored
> web (which is really interesting
> for offline sessions, and that's something I hate about tabbed approach
> because eats so much
> resources innecesarily).
>
> I dont really have any final idea in my head, but I think this thread
> can help to identify the problems
> in current browsing usages and create a tool to manage
> tabs/bookmarks/history in a simpler and
> better way.
>
> --pancake
>
> Jessta wrote:
>
>> I tend to use tabs as a stack of temporary bookmarks, I navigate to a
>> page and open all the links I want to see on to tabs, closed that
>> pages and move through all the tabs, it pretty much makes the back
>> button redundant.
>>
>> Mostly I'm just putting things on the stack or pulling them off, I
>> don't tend to go back to a tab I've previously been at, so it's always
>> bugged me that firefox thinks it needs to load all my tabs and keep
>> them in memory constantly.
>>
>> I have this idea of a stack based browser, where instead of opening a
>> new window(or tab) it just adds the link to a stack(maybe using
>> vertical dmenu), that I can pull stuff off.
>>
>> - Jesse
>>
>> On 17/09/2009, Anselm R Garbe <garbeam_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 2009/9/17 Antoni Grzymala <antoni_AT_chopin.edu.pl>:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Anselm R Garbe dixit (2009-09-16, 14:48):
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> I wonder if there is a schedule for the next developpment on surf. Is
>>>>>> it planned to add multi-tab support? If no, I guess I'll take a look
>>>>>> at the code and submit an ugly-but-functional patch.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> I think tab support in firefox/IE/chrome/Safari/Opera is just a ugly
>>>>> workaround due to the limitations present in floating desktop
>>>>> environments. Tab support is the WMs job -> use dwm and it'll work
>>>>> like a charm to use tags and layouts in conjunction with surf.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I usually have about 70 tabs open in Opera (and often lots more). Since
>>>> Operas tab manager is *specialized* for this number of fullscreen
>>>> windows it works well. I can easyli navigate those using single-letter
>>>> keystrokes.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I'm not sure that having 70 tabs open is sensible and really I can't
>>> imagine that this could be any useful.
>>> This must clearly be a problem with the browser's UI if it encourages
>>> you to keep all tabs open. I mean there should be much better ways to
>>> manage web sites you look at. I never found the bookmarking in
>>> browsers convenient which could be also the reason why others like you
>>> end up with plenty open tabs.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> This isn't possible or sensible in a wm which is designed for a somewhat
>>>> different purpose and with rather different number of clients in mind.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> dwm is designed with arbitrary amounts of clients in mind. The default
>>> tiled layout isn't admittedly, it serves a different purpose. But the
>>> internals of the tagging/viewing concept are and it comes down to a
>>> good layout management in the end. I can't see a single reason why dwm
>>> shouldn't be able to manage your browser tabs.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Stop this wm lunacy. dwm is just as limited for that purpose as is your
>>>> next non-tiling WIMP-based window manager. Opera's built-in wm is a good
>>>> workaround for that problem, I don't see in what way it is ugly (and it
>>>> works already).
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I'm always open for improvements if there is a good reason and cause
>>> identified. But first please really think carefully what's causing
>>> this mis-use of 70 tabs in Opera for you. That's surely related to an
>>> issue that has nothing to do with the WM or with the web rendering
>>> engine...
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Anselm
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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Received on Thu Sep 17 2009 - 14:15:59 UTC