Re: The browser is dead: long live the browser

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From	Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>
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Subject	Re: The browser is dead: long live the browser
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On 18/05/2014 6:12 AM, RS Wood wrote:
>  From the «This guy has never used a Chromebook» department:
> Title: Venturi: The browser is dead. Long live the browser!
> Author:
> Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 20:17:48 -0400
> Link: http://lwn.net/Articles/598960/rss
>
> While the title might make it seem like another comment on the Mozilla/DRM
> issue, the article[1] by Giorgio Venturi on the Canonical Design blog is
> actually about redesigning the browser interface for mobile phones. "If
> content is our king, then recency should be our queen. [...] Similarly,
> bookmarks are often a meaningless list of webpages, as their value was linked
> to the specific time when they were taken. For example, let’s imagine we are
> planning our next holiday and we start bookmarking a few interesting places.
> We may even create a new ‘holidays’ folder and add the bookmarks to it.
> However, once the holiday is the bookmarks are still there, they don’t expire
> once they have lost their value. This happens pretty much every time; old
> bookmarks and folders will eventually start cluttering our screen and make it
> difficult to find the information we need. Therefore we redesigned tabs,
> history and bookmarks to display the most recent information first.
> Consequently, the display and the retrieval of information is simplified."
>
> Links:
> [1]: http://design.canonical.com/2014/05/the-browser-is-dead-long-live-the-browser/ (link)
>

As long as there's an easily accessible "Leave my bookmarks the hell 
alone" option.

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The browser is dead: long live the browser RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-17 20:12 +0000
  Re: The browser is dead: long live the browser Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-05-18 16:03 +1000

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