I, too, think I am going to like this browser. I was wondering where to go since Safari has sort of pooped out on us.
Thanks, Pat in Albuquerque
On Jan 18, 2005, at 12:08 PM, David Fedoruk wrote:
Hi,
One of the common things running though this thread is the shock when this feature (the Bookmark Manager) is first encountered. I experienced the same shock, but after a while, I got used to it. i realised that my tabs were not gone and that I had not lost anything.
I assume the reasons for opening the Bookmark Manager is to edit or arrange your bookmarks (obviously). This is a *very* hands on activity and you cannot really be editing your book marks AND be using your active tabs.
Opening the Bookmark Manager has more in common with pulling down the Camino menu and choosing Preferences which also obscures your open page(s). Customizing your Toolbar also pulls down a sheet which obscures AND prevents you from doing anything other than changing how your Toolbar look and acts. Following the logic from this thread, the actions of both these objects should be in question. The reason seems clear. There two objects basically work exactly the same as in other browsers.
There is no reason why Camino should do things the same as all other browsers. I like the fact that Camino does do things differently in some cases. I like Camino because it has attempted to create a different browser experience. For the most part it has been very successful. After using the Bookmark Manager as is for quite some time now, I have gotten used to it and am quite happy with it. I opened Firefox's Sidebar Bookmark Manager and wondered how anyone to edit or arrange book marks in that small cramped space. Of course you can pull the window open wider but that obscures the page(s) you're looking at anyway. Firefox will also open the manager in a separate window, which is nice, but adds to the clutter on my iBook.
I am not intending to criticise other browsers because I use them as well. But Camino has chosen to do things differently for reasons that have already been discussed elsewhere. I am glad for Camino's compactness. It's slimmed down qualities are features and not things that need to be complicated with all the bells and whistles other browsers have.
When Camino becomes scriptable, users will be able to extend it with any other features they want. Perhaps the requests here should be for scriptability and not for changes in the basic design of the application.
David
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