190282 - Visual history (thumbnails preview)

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

Description

[Andre-John Mas]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021104 Chimera/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021104 Chimera/0.6

This history idea is based on a feature that was used in Apple's Hypercard
application. The idea would be to have a visual history frame. The frame would
be scrollable, with each page visited in the referenced window being listed,
either as a text element, or as a page capture. This history would be as
extensive as a user defined value, either 'n' or all. The page would be
accessible via the back button menu - the last item would be 'view extended
history...' or something.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
[feature request]

Actual Results:  
[feature request]

Expected Results:  
[feature request]

Comment 1

[Robb Tolliver]

Could you attach a screenshot either how it should look in mozilla, or a
screenshot from hypercard? That would make it easier for those of us who aren't
familiar with hypercard to visualize.

Comment 2

[Andre-John Mas]

I have created a screen shot of the Hypercard 'recent' window here:
http://www.geocities.com/ajmas/hypercard-recent.png

Comment 3

[Daniel Wang]

url does not work. pls post the img as an attachment to this bug

Comment 4

[Andre-John Mas]

Attachment: Screenshot of the hypercard history window

Comment 5

[Andre-John Mas]

TrailBlazer offers another alternative:

   http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/macwarriors/projects/trailblazer

As does OmniWeb 5:

   http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/5/

Maybe this could be added as an add-on, since adding this sort of feature would
really depend on user perception and usability.

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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