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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

#2864 — The browser is dead: long live the browser

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)

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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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