[IxDA Discuss] "carpet" of bookmarks and sessions ("inside" tabsand windows)

[Esteban Barahona]

2007/1/9, Arjan Geven <geven at cure.at>:
>
> Hi,
>
> > This may be purely linguistical, but what are exactly
> > sessions? This is one of the features in which Opera was
> > unique. Each session is a group of web pages, it can be
> > auto-saved (useful after a crash and for consistency of
> > information) or it can be saved by users. But looking at it,
> > why is a session different from a group of webpages inside a
> > "carpet" of the bookmarks library? Isn't that redundant?
>
> The difference lays in the history:
>
> - A carpet is a list of URLs.
> - A session is the group of windows with their respective histories,
>
> When you use the Firefox functionality to bookmark all open tabs at
> once, close all tabs, and reload them from the bookmarks menu, you do
> not have the possibility to go back in the history of these.
>
> I'm not very happy with the way any browser currently deals with
> bookmarks and history, and there can be a lot of improvement based on
> the way people remember the pages they stored as bookmarks in relation
> to other pages, keywords, screenshots, etc. The current implementation
> is actually very poor and only works well to quickly load pages that you
> visit often. Bookmarking pages for future reference is probably more
> often used but poorly supported.


What is there respective history?

> Maybe this is overthinking, but web-browsers can be
> > streamlined. Why not call the Bookmarks-menu WebSites or
> > WebPages? Is bookmarks clear enough (for first users,
> > old-time users are "comfortable" because of habits). And now
> > that we're at it, why a "file" menu in a web-browser?
> > Shouldn't some "file"
> > functions be in the website menu (like Print)? And why "save
> > webpage" is in "file-menu" and not in "edit-menu" near copy,
> > paste, delete?
> >
> > This is not only about web-browsers but someone mentioned in
> > a web-forum ( www.linuxquestions.org if I recall correctly )
> > about naming windows in a different way, like boxes. Windows
> > (boxes?), Files (information?), Carpets (lists?), and other
> > desktop-names aren't clear at all in most cases, IMO.
>
> Why do all traffic lights look the same...? Why do we call a plant a
> plant, a house a house and a tree a tree?
>
> Consistency, consistency and consistency :-),
>
> Best,
> Arjan .


It's not using names, it's bringing names that have nothing to do with
computing and expect users to be comfortable because of habit (...some
aren't that bad).

I will continue using "information" instead of "files" though =P



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