On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 05:19:06AM -0400, Philip Ganchev wrote: > Hi, > > Here are some ideas for improving the user interface of the wonderful > Links web browser. I realize that the developers probably have little > time to spend on Links, so these ideas may never be implemented. I am > putting them up for discussion, and perhaps someone will eventually > implement some of them. (I cannot yet write C, unfortunately.) > > First, I think forward history would be very useful. Users often > navigate back in history and then again to the page they were at. An > unofficial patch for this by Peter Wang is at > http://links.twibright.com/download/unofficial_patches/. The > associated txt file says it si too dangerous to put into the main > release. Why? > > Underline links. They would be easier to recognize, especially if they > are colored in an unusal color. Also, it is clear which words are > separate links and which are together one link. > > Use the status bar instead of dialog boxes for URLs and text search. > Dialog boxes are too obtrusive; they may hide the search results or > the text needed to compose the search query or the URL. The status > bar is inactive anyway if a dialog box is present. > > In graphics mode, support copying text from dialog boxes like the URL > box to the X clipboard, and pasting to text boxes on the page. This is > makes transfering information like URLs and search terms much easier. > > Some kind of smart bookmarks, that would allow the user to use web > search and lookup (like Wikipedia, dictionary) without first > navigating to a website. An easy way is to provide a home page > shortcut and so that the user can create a local home page containing > text boxes and buttons for the appropriate web search services. See > for example http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~philip/.portal.html . Using a > local page reduces the latency for searching. > > How can I stop the loading of a page?
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