pray pardon my ignorance. talking of Browser annoyances :-)
Is ad filtering to happen at the server level, or is there a way to implement it on the XO? I vote for server (one fix for all), especially if there is a simple mechanism that can update such filter info directly from the teacher XO without needing to mess with the XS itself. Then it wouldn't be a "sugar" problem but XS's :-) Yet it would be nice Browser didn't have to load the standard nonsense that comes along with too many pages these days Yama Eben Eliason wrote: > Just a high level take on these patches... > > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Cortland Setlow > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> This patch does three things, and I'll be happy if even one makes it in to >> Browse. >> >> It causes ctrl-l (lowercase L) to put focus on the address bar like in all >> other browsers that do not make me angry. >> > > Sounds good to me. Adherence to well known shortcuts is usually a > win, and this is a basic feature we didn't have before, as far as I > know. I suppose the mnemonic is "location". > > >> It causes ctrl-d to do what ctrl-l used to do, namely do a >> screenshot-bookmark. This is the standard bookmark key. Pressing ctrl-d >> more times will show/hide the bookmark toolbar, so if you accidentally show >> it you can get rid of the large and obnoxious thing. Ctrl-b will also >> show/hide it, cause why not? >> > > Anyone care to explain the mnemonic for Ctrl-d? Again, keeping to the > standards can't really be a bad thing. I'm unsure about overloading > the shortcut with the bar toggle, though. I might instead offer that > alt-ctrl-d could make be added for making a bookmark "silently" > (without revealing the tray, if it's hidden). I think it's better to > keep the notion of creating a bookmark and toggling the bookmark tray > independent. In my browser, command-shift-B toggles the bookmark bar, > but I can't see a reason to require the extra shift modifier (is that > a standard elsewhere?). The shortcut for this is currently > ctrl-space, I think...if we make ctrl-b serve this purpose we should > remove the other shortcut. > > >> It causes ctrl-i to show the URI of the page instead of the title, >> temporarily. Good for checking that one isn't being fished. >> > > This is a pretty interesting idea, and a very nice addition to the > concept of the combined URL/address bar. If you're up to it, I would > appreciate it if you could try out another related idea which I've > been thinking about. I think it would also make sense to reveal the > URI whenever the cursor is within the entry, so that it's possible to > select all or part of it, or position the cursor in a meaningful way > when clicking into it. > > I think that we could certainly make use of most of this with the > changes/additions described above! Thanks for your efforts! > > - Eben > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > Sugar@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar