Re: [WSG] do people still use bookmarks?

2003-12-12 Thread Chris Stratford
And CrazyBrowser (IE) www.crazybrowser.com its awesome :) cheers! Original Message Follows From: James Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] do people still use bookmarks? Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 11:56:28 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Rec

Re: [WSG] do people still use bookmarks?

2003-12-12 Thread James Ellis
Not to miss the blessing of tabbed browsing where I can bookmark a group of tabs, then open the tabs all in one go. I think the browsers that do this are Mozilla and Safari - not sure about Opera 6/7. Cheers James Mark Stanton wrote: Yes my firebird links toolbar looks like: - AClientNa

Re: [WSG] [OT everso slightly] Gramophone web site

2003-12-12 Thread Jonathan Baldwin
Thanks for all those thoughts - I'd guessed it pretty much but it's nice to have confirmation. I'll let you know what the site owners say! (www.newstatesman.co.uk had a similar problem and were oblivious to the fact the site didn't work on anything other than their setup. I ended up emailing th

Re: [WSG] directory structures

2003-12-12 Thread Jonathan Baldwin
This is quite an interesting off-topic thread! On 12 Dec 2003, at 07:17, Gary Menzel wrote: Agree that you need to own the directory structure. The directory structure for a site should make sense to the owner of the information. It may make no sense at all to a user of the information. Mmm...

[WSG] Bookmark plugin: Was: do people still use bookmarks?

2003-12-12 Thread Brendan Smith
With all the OT posts lately - I don't feel as guilty posting this : ) I have always wanted to be able to make my bookmarks available. From anywhere. Everywhere. Home, work, cafe's, mate's houses - even the in-laws. Maybe even my dingy PDA. I always envisioned it being a plugin that worked in

RE: [WSG] do people still use bookmarks?

2003-12-12 Thread Mark Stanton
> "URL's change" With all due respect Gary... http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html (look for "I didn't think URLs have to be persistent - that was URNs") Cheers Mark -- Mark Stanton Technical Director Gruden Pty Ltd Tel: 9956 6388 Mob: 0410 458 201 Fax: 9956 8433 http:/

Re: [WSG] directory structures

2003-12-12 Thread Gary Menzel
> I think "logical to the user not the owner" is spot in for the website > navigation. Definitely agree with that. > But the actual directory structure, where you put your content, you need to > own that. And the #1 rule I aim for is that you don't want to change your > directory structure (wher

Re: [WSG] do people still use bookmarks?

2003-12-12 Thread Gary Menzel
> For myself, only rarely. > I still think it's nice to have a URL that > can sort of be read I suppose the place I am coming from on this is that... "URL's change" Many sites are updated regularly and things move around. There is no gaurantee that something you bookmark (or remember) tod

[WSG] directory structures

2003-12-12 Thread Ben Boyle
>> It's more to do with usability than accessibility, as it affects all users IMHO. But as a start, a logical directory structure is important, so long as it's logical to the user not the owner. << Well, I agree and disagree. I think "logical to the user not the owner" is spot in for the website