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How to Build a Better Browser

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'd-like-to-know dept.

TuringTest writes "Interface designer and IE ex-developer Scott Berkun writes an essay on basic principles of web browser design, moved by the recent presence of Firefox and Opera in the headlines. Gives plenty of design constraints and guidelines, some insightful, some debatable. Personally some features that I'd like to see in my browser include colaborative filtering (a.k.a. del.icio.us integration), a unified tool for history+bookmarks in a single list (filtered by keyword tags), and automatic generation of keywords for the bookmarked pages (something that Open Text Summarizer can do)."

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  1. Re:one of the things i would like to see is with by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    bookmarks, if they were searchable i think that would be a big improvement. i collect so many they get hard to manage.
    Firefox has this.

  2. Re:one of the things i would like to see is with by kanweg · · Score: 5, Informative

    I use Safari, and my bookmarks are searchable. Nice.

    Bert

  3. Re:one of the things i would like to see is with by Fweeky · · Score: 4, Informative

    So does Opera.

  4. Bookmarks Synchronizer by bstadil · · Score: 4, Informative
    This Bookmarks Synchronizer alone makes a switch to FF worthwile. You can sync regardless of OS you are using.

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  5. Re:Decent by somethinghollow · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not terribly insightful or innovative? Coming from an ex-IE designer? Noooo. I don't believe it.

    IE are the guys who think tabbed browsing isn't useful or desired by users. Is that why AOL is making an IE with tabbed browsing? Is that why every other browser has tabbed browsing? I think it's pretty obvious who's incorrect.

    Taking hints from IE designers are like taking hints on car design from the designers of the Pinto. Sure, they might have gotten alot right, but there was that one problem...