And it came to pass that Emlyn wrote:
>> > If that were possible, then I could exit Mozilla, start
>> > up again, and have the page loaded and scrolled exactly
>> > to the place I left off.
>>
>> Um, this is not only currently a feature of Mozilla, it
>> exists in Netscape Communicator.
>> EDIT/PREFERENCES/NAVIGATOR You can select "last page
>> visited". When you start up Mozilla, you automagically go
>> - to the last page visited.
>
> Four problems with that plan:
>
> 1] "Last page visted" remembers one page, and only one, out
> of the eight or nine pages I typically have open while I
> "surf".
>
> 2] "Last page visited" gives you the page defined by the
> last link you clicked in some window (a seemingly randomly
> chosen one. I bet it's the first one opened or some such,
> but it seems random to people with as many windows open at
> once as I). This means that, if the page used to be loaded
> inside a frame, it isn't now.
>
> 3] Scrollbars.
>
???
> 4] Neither "EDIT", "PREFERENCES" nor "NAVIGATOR" actually
> exits. Perhaps you mean "Edit", "Preferences" and
> "Navigator".
It's the same damn thing in English, my dear.
>
>
>> You'd probably enjoy adding the HISTORY tab to your
>> Sidebar, too. This will allow you to revisit any page
>> you've been to within the period that you preserve your
>> surfing history.
>
> The History tab (which is I'm assuming what you mean) shows
> the last-visited sites catagorised by the domain name. But
> the point of bookmarks is not to have to remember domain
> names. Yes, the History tab works (sans scrollbar
> functionality) but it takes a lot of digging around.
Oh, YOU want an AI or a psychic.
>
>> > Does anyone else agree that "bookmark" is a misnomer?
>>
>> Nope. Bookmarks mark web*pages* I want to re-visit. The
>> book is not the website, but the entire internet. I can't
>> think of a better or more accurate name than bookmark.
>
> "Favourite".
Perhaps you mean "Favorite" ;-)
"Favorite" what? Recipe? Position?
And what if it's not a "favorite" but just something I need to
get back to?
>
> No, I'm not a Microsoft lover. I would contend that Mozilla
> is better than Microsoft Internet Explorer. But they got
> "Favourite" right. Possibly that is the only thing they did
> get right, but...
>
> You don't go through the internet from cover to cover. You
> read bits. You migth have favourite bits, but bookmarks
> have, since time immemorial, been used to mark a place in a
> book mean to be read sequentially.
Bookmarks have been used to find the page again, nothing more,
nothing less. "Bookmarks" is more logical than "favorites", just
as a word in capitals is the same word when typed in lowercase.
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}:-) Christopher Jahn
{:-( Dionysian Reveler
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