Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > (Removed nautilus-list, since this bit is about Web browsers.) > > On 9 Feb, 2006, at 5:56 AM, Alan Horkan wrote: >> ... >> On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: >> ... >>>> I agree, it's not a Nautilus specific problem, I think web browsers >>>> suffered from the same problem until they started using tabs. >>> >>> Web browsers have never suffered from this problem, >> >> never say never > > No, really, they haven't. Hotmail briefly experimented with an ActiveX > control where you could attach a file by dragging it into the browser > window from Windows Explorer, but that's the only example I've ever > seen, and it worked only because it was ActiveX. More to the point, > apart from dragging text into a textarea, there's been no situation > where you could drag stuff *from one browser window into another*, which > is what would make panels useful.
This is very much a corner-case example, but I seem to remember a web-based bookmarking system that allowed you to use drag-and-drop to create a new bookmark. You'd navigate to a page, and drag the url from the address field (above the page) into the extra popup window. I think it used Javascript, but I can't remember for sure - or the site, to be able to see if it's still in existence. As I said, very much a corner case. And that was in the pre-tab days (except for Opera). I don't really think it counts as causing "suffering", but it does show that some people will do unexpected things. - John _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
