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Making A Better Browser History

Posted by timothy on from the and-a-browser-is-a-mousetrap dept.

jbtule writes "Students at the University of Illinois have released TrailBlazer, a new user interface to represent your web browsing history. It lays out the pages you visit in a simple 2D map with thumbnails and summaries. The project took 2nd place at the university's annual Engineering Open House and a three minute video is available that demonstrates TrailBlazer for those who don't have Mac OS X Panther. TrailBlazer is implemented with Apple's WebKit on a bare bones browser, but this interface would probably be more useful if it were added to a real browser. This is a much better history than chronological lists of web page titles or crazy cubes floating around a 3D space. Hopefully Safari or /insert favorite web browser/ will do something similar in the future."

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  1. Re:Thumbnails? by jetfuel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hey, I live at rubicon.cx, you insensitive clod!

  2. Browser Advances by Justifiable_Delusion · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The internet browser really is something significant. It is our gateway to knowledge. Kinda like the TV screen was way back in the day. :-) What really amazes me when I see the future of the internet is the ability for it to truly deliver us information that we want when we want it. And it will be a thoughtless process as we get computers and software which can properly build a database of our past experiences and gives us choices and desires that we really want. Computing will be amazing. But, the browser is what rules now. Amazing interesting little innovations have made my browser experience that much better. The little drop down search menu's, tabbed browsing, the download manger and whatever else I missed from the land of Mozilla actually make me look forward to what they are going to do next to make my browsing experience richer and faster. I really am wondering what will be the next advance that makes my browsing that much better. What things do you people use that make your browsing better? I can't wait to play with this little toy when it or something similar is out for Win32. Long live new stuff that has a purpose. Innovation.

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  3. WARNING: THIS POST HAS NO REPLIES by digitaleus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    this space was intentionally left blank

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