I just read http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/12/google-tests-navigational-suggestions.html about adding links in the Suggest-area under the search bar. The Omnibar does this (sans blue+underline), but I still have to type, hit down-arrow 3 times and enter. It'd be great to do this with fewer keystrokes, seeing this (plus normal search) covers virtually all my Omnibar use.
[skä Type to search] [Go] 1. Search Google for skä 2. skä/ 3. (bookmark hit 1) 4. (bookmark hit 2) 5. (google search suggestion 1) 6. (google search suggestion 2) Maybe row-numbering the suggestions also for real, in the browser, could help somehow? I could maybe type skä.3 <enter> (.3 is not a TLD, and maybe uncommon enough to be prevented from searching for it?) thereby keeping my right hand on the pointing device. Though it also adds UI clutter. Row 2 "skä/" only appears as long as there is only one word (=possibly valid domain name). We could hide row 2 if parallell lookup in dns+ (incremental) search in browser history says that domain doesn't exist, forcing the user to do a search for it -- often a good idea in those cases! This could also save many eyes from the ugly pages with "DNS error - cannot find server." :-). Best of all - this could be done regardless of whether a different omnibar algorithm (i.e. more like FF3) gets adopted or not. Only problem is if this is worth the time of a paid coder... Patches welcome? (Row 2, i.e. "foo/" even stays visible with one word + space, which seems like an oversight!? crbug.com/5664). I'm also curious whether there is need for one suggestions-row for the default search, since I get that with enter, or clicking the Go button. To make it easier for pointing-device -centric users? If it was easier to maintain personal patch-sets (like by using git, *hint hint*) then this kind of problem would be solved by running a home-compiled Chromium.exe. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
