Safari interface issues
While I like the sparse and uncluttered look of Safari, there are a few minor interface problems.
There needs to be more visual feedback when loading a page. The address bar turns blue but when it stops halfway, I'm not sure if it's just still loading or it can't find the page.
The address bar needs to provide smaller and not so bold text
One needs to be able to see bookmarks simply with a drop down menu without having to go to a dedicated page.
There needs to be more visual feedback when loading a page. The address bar turns blue but when it stops halfway, I'm not sure if it's just still loading or it can't find the page.
The address bar needs to provide smaller and not so bold text
One needs to be able to see bookmarks simply with a drop down menu without having to go to a dedicated page.
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<strong>While I like the sparse and uncluttered look of Safari, there are a few minor interface problems.
There needs to be more visual feedback when loading a page. The address bar turns blue but when it stops halfway, I'm not sure if it's just still loading or it can't find the page.
The address bar needs to provide smaller and not so bold text
One needs to be able to see bookmarks simply with a drop down menu without having to go to a dedicated page.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Actually, you can make your bookmarks show up in the drop down menu. Click on the bookmarks tab and you'll see a folder called Bookmarks Menu....anything you add to there will show up in the Bookmarks drop down menu.
<strong>There needs to be more visual feedback when loading a page. The address bar turns blue but when it stops halfway, I'm not sure if it's just still loading or it can't find the page.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Seems to act just like any other progress indicator to me. I find this "jerky" progress bar behavior to be typical in any browser.
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Actually, you can make your bookmarks show up in the drop down menu. Click on the bookmarks tab and you'll see a folder called Bookmarks Menu....anything you add to there will show up in the Bookmarks drop down menu.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I have no folder called Bookmarks Menu. I have
1) Show all bookmarks
2) Add bookmark
3)Add bookmark folder
4)Bookmarks bar
It has been annoying me also that I can't have a pulldown menu of my bookmarks.
<strong>I have no idea why Apple didn't integrate the status bar into the progress/address bar at the top like OmniWeb does. I find it less functional not to know the address of a link that my mouse is over.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Just in case you aren't aware, a click and drag usually does the trick, you sometimes don't get the whole url though.
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I have no folder called Bookmarks Menu. I have
1) Show all bookmarks
2) Add bookmark
3)Add bookmark folder
4)Bookmarks bar
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When you actually select Add Bookmark... is one of the options not Bookmarks Menu?
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Just in case you aren't aware, a click and drag usually does the trick, you sometimes don't get the whole url though.</strong><hr></blockquote>
That's extraneous IMO.
Here's an example of what I'm referring to, though, by a drop-down menu in the bookmark bar:
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That's extraneous IMO.</strong><hr></blockquote>
For the status bar, press command-\\ or use the View menu
To put links in the Boomarks menu, click on the bookmark library button in the bookmarks bar, or click option-command-b. In the lefthand list of folders, just under the Bookmarks bar at the top, there is the Bookmarks menu folder, special icon and all. Place links or folders of links in there. To copy folders or links to that menu, it still needs work. Right now, you can option- or command-drag a folder to copy it within the left pane of the bookmarks library, but you can't option-or command-drag it into another folder or to the righthand pane. Anyhoo, thats how you put stuff in the Bookmarks menu.
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When you actually select Add Bookmark... is one of the options not Bookmarks Menu?</strong><hr></blockquote>
No I don't have that option and to respond to a previous suggestion I know I can put all my bookmarks in the bookmarks bar but I don't want to do it that way.
<strong>This is a beta. Instead of complaining why not send your ideas to Apple. They have provided the means to do it. Click on the bug.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Why assume I haven't reported this bug? I have done, I am just sharing my experience in this post. Is that ok?
<strong>There's some confusion around here:
For the status bar, press command-\\ or use the View menu
To put links in the Boomarks menu, click on the bookmark library button in the bookmarks bar, or click option-command-b. In the lefthand list of folders, just under the Bookmarks bar at the top, there is the Bookmarks menu folder, special icon and all. Place links or folders of links in there. To copy folders or links to that menu, it still needs work. Right now, you can option- or command-drag a folder to copy it within the left pane of the bookmarks library, but you can't option-or command-drag it into another folder or to the righthand pane. Anyhoo, thats how you put stuff in the Bookmarks menu.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I did this at an earlier time but then got rid of this setup because I realised I would always have to duplicate each bookmark because I would be storing two sets of bookmarks in two different locations
<strong>Because it's not consistent with having a simple, easy to use, efficient interface. What's better, "clicking+dragging" or just rolling your mouse over a link?</strong><hr></blockquote>
I've been using the pie menu implementation on Phoenix for Windows which relies on a right-press and drag. It's really quite cool if you give it a try.
<a href="http://www.gamemakers.de/mozilla/radialcontext/"; target="_blank">http://www.gamemakers.de/mozilla/radialcontext/</a>;
Beware that by default you can use right-click and then another click to activate rather than the much better option of holding down the button and having the action fire when you release.
As for the link, I like the fact that you don't have to move your eyes away from the link and back again and the motion has easily become second nature.
As a bonus you don't have random info popping up at the bottom of the screen as you mouse around and you save a couple of pixels of vital vertical space.
Question: is anyone aware of pie menus for OS X? I remember a cocoa mouse gestures release and the two are conceptually similar.
edit: I just realized that they should work in Mozilla on OS X, I'll try that later but would much prefer a cocoa wide implementation.
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