What Do You Want On Future Browsers?

Coach Wei writes "An industry wishlist for future browsers has been collected and developed by OpenAjax Alliance. Using wiki as an open collaboration tool, the feature list now lists 37 separate feature requests, covering a wide range of technology areas, such as security, Comet, multimedia, CSS, interactivity, and performance. The goal is to inform the browser vendors about what the Ajax developer community feels are most important for the next round of browsers (i.e., FF4, IE9, Safari4, and Opera10) and to provide supplemental details relative to the feature requests. Currently, the top three voted features are: 2D Drawing/Vector Graphics, The Two HTTP Connection Limit Issue, and HTML DOM Operation Performance In General . OpenAjax Alliance is calling for everyone to vote for his/her favorite features. The alliance also strongly encourages people to comment on the wiki pages for each of the existing features and to add any important new features that are not yet on the list." On a related note, an anonymous reader writes "The Tao of Mac has put up pretty interesting list of five things that are still wrong with browsers these days, and I have to wonder — with things like AIR starting to be accepted by developers, do we still need the browser at all?"

Comments

Re:stability?

[DriedClexler]

Well, I can't speak for your experience, but I've had a lot of similar annoyances.

1) LiarSucks deletes my bookmarks and javascript whitelist every time I upgrade, even though this bug has officially been "fixed". Yeah, I just *love* having to recover my bookmarks and re-authorize every single page I go to. (If your response is "Hey, you can rescue your bookmarks by following the instructions on an obscure web page", please kill yourself. You just. don't. get it.)
2) The memory on forms is more of an annoyance: the list of entries I've previously put in a field pops up, but I have to move my hand away from its natural position, and back, to use it, defeating the convenience purpose of it. Plus, the list obscures stuff I want to see.
3) Clicking on a web address in the address drop-down bar doesn't make a page load until I hit enter. Moreover, previous versions of LIARsucks did, yet they try to delete evidence of this! (IE has this funcitonality btw...)
4) If you don't know to regularly clean your downloads list, downloads will take longer and longer to start, and LiarSucks will freeze.
5) Any form involving a complicated, secure transaction? Just pray.

Solve these problems, and you've got a better browser.