As of the version of Chrome I'm currently running, 2.0.172.33, I have found only three features (and one tweak) that I really desire. I did a quick search of the known issues list and either could not find any reference to these or was unsure of how they might be described.
The first two features are ones I have seen in other browsers. Since I do a certain amount of development work, I frequently need to browse HTML or XML on my local file system. My preferred method, in most cases, is to just type the path in the address bar. Other browsers will recognize that I'm typing a path and offer to auto-complete each component of the path. I think this would be a very handy addition to Chrome. On this note, the "tweak" is that it would be nice if I could scroll "around the end" of the drop-down list of suggestions, as I find, often enough, that the item I'm after is nearer the end than the beginning, such that one or two up-arrow presses, rather than a bunch of down-arrow presses, would be a little faster. (Yes, I'm a little obsessive about how quickly I can get little things done, but it *is* often about the little things, isn't it?) The second feature, also seen in other browsers, is some sort of default rendering of XML files, such as a simple indented hierarchy, possibly with the option to collapse branches of the hierarchy to ease navigation of large files. Ideally, this could be done with the option to configure a default XSLT transform (or possibly CSS stylesheet) to be used, allowing for some customization of the default display. I'm not familiar enough with the current makeup of Chrome's architecture to say what the feasibility of these various options might be. So far as I'm aware, the last feature is not available in any major browser (I stick to Chrome as much as possible, so I don't keep tabs on some of the other options), but it is familiar from other major applications. This is the ability to split the content window in two, top and bottom, to allow two different vertical sections of the same page to be viewed at once. This has significant utility on a variety of pages that may have information near the top or bottom, such as headers or footers of some kind, that can help to understand information in the middle of the page. Obviously, numerous similar scenarios exist. I did find some references to similar-sounding ideas in this forum, but nothing quite the same. None of these features seem, to me, to be all that radical, so I suspect some discussion may have already taken place on one or more of them. Pointers to such discussions would be most welcome. :) Ditto for current development efforts of which I may not be aware. Otherwise, if these ideas sound good to others, I'll be happy to write them up for the issue list and possibly even contribute some work toward refining them into some solid requirements or even design, if that help would be welcome. -Brandon :) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
