177959 - Implement tree-based session history

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Camino Graveyard :: History, enhancement)

Description

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

It's always bugged me that session history is linear. History is really a tree,
so we should display it as such.

Comment 1

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Attachment: WIP patch for tree-based history.

Comment 2

[saari (gone)]

Yeah, session history most correctly maps to a tree, but I wonder how confusing
that might be for most users? The problem I see is that "back" and "forward" are
 the model of web browsing, and that maps to a list not a tree. I suspect most
people's mental models of web browsing match up to list navigation not tree
walking. I went here, then here, then here, then back, not I went down, down,
up, and over.

<shrug> Food for thought.

Comment 3

[cfranc]

well, i'm all for it if it's more intuitive. 

just as long as it isn't going to make chimera draw the session history slower
than it already does...

Comment 4

[Stephane Moureau]

Just an idea FWIW.
It's something I would like to have too, specially when you can't 'go back'
because you move somewhere else in the tree and it has 'overriden' the pages
lower in the tree, dead branches.
But I admit it might be confusing for most.
What about a special page opening, like Show Source, with a real tree à la Apple
System Profiler, linked rectangles as in a family tree ?
This will be very easy to understand and unique.

Comment 5

[Mike McGranahan]

Just to indicate interest in this bug: The lack of this feature and a web-based
bookmarks synchronizer are the only reasons I use Firefox over Camino.

Comment 6

[mozilla]

An idea: having thumbnails with the hierarchy would help people find what they are looking for (similar to OmniWeb)

Comment 7

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Yeah, session history most correctly maps to a tree, but I wonder how confusing
> that might be for most users? The problem I see is that "back" and "forward" are
>  the model of web browsing, and that maps to a list not a tree. I suspect most
> people's mental models of web browsing match up to list navigation not tree
> walking. I went here, then here, then here, then back, not I went down, down,
> up, and over.

Well, *my* mental model of browsing is a tree lying on its side :-p

Simon, have you looked into this any further in the past three years? :)

cl

Comment 8

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

No.

Comment 9

[Takanori MATSUURA]

This bug lies at rest in the graveyard.