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Originally Posted by Ken Case
OK, here are the top dozen feature requests for OmniWeb:
- Add a conventional tab bar (#12937)
- Incremental page search (find as you type) (#15247)
- Add the ability to block or disable Flash, QuickTime, other plug-ins without requiring regex (#4965)
- Undo support for closing tabs/windows (#13237)
- Support multiple logins (username/passwords) per website, autocomplete logins (#13995)
- Provide some way to sort (reorder) bookmarks permanently so they appear sorted in the menu (#240)
- Lock status bar icon should show site's security info/certificate (#16051)
- Allow moving/dragging tabs from one workspace to another, deleting them, etc. (#13082)
- Bring back the bookmarks drawer [bookmarks sidebar] (#13035)
- Confirm Quit dialog box, optionally only when edited forms exist (#3581)
- Suggested improvements for URL autocomplete matching (#7404)
- New tabs should open up as a child of, or next to, a root tab (#17671)
Wow, bug #240! That's an old one, I wonder if there are any older unresolved requests in the database… Yes, there are, though none of them have many votes:
- Scheduled / prioritized downloads (#182)
- Want to assign window size to specific URLs or automatically resize windows based on URL and/or store window size in bookmark (#235)
- Untitled but bookmarked pages should use bookmark label for Window menu (#236)
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Ken, I appreciate your posting this. It's interesting. It makes me wonder whether you are soliciting feedback on what improvements should be highest priority.
It also leaves me unclear about what most of these potential improvements really mean, what they really are, because they contain jargon with which I'm unfamiliar.
BTW: I'm neither an 'inner circle' OF person, nor can I afford time to study the OF forum for ideas as much as I'd like to do.
I don't have time to become an OF acolyte, because I aspire to be a user, not a researcher of OF. I've "used" OF for about a year now.
Or maybe I should say, OF has used me for about a year.
Maybe someday, if I can dodge the slings and arrows of the "inner circle" enforcers of orthodoxy, I will "grad-u-ate" and actually become an OF user. Right now, I seem to have no alternative but to spend as much time studying it and its many, many, many undocumented capabilities, as I do using it.
In particular, my focus in getting value out of OF has been to consider OF only 50% and the other 50% to focus on how to integrate my use of OF with physical reality: ie., paper resources, files; and scaling this to meet the needs of my business, as well as my personal work.
{BTW: I am NOT sold on the 43 folders idea.}
I am devising my own filing system, integrating OF with paper reality. It is providing a much needed and complementary method to the 43 folders concept/method. My system would work even better with more meta-data fields in OF's version 2.0
Accordingly, I reluctantly conclude I have a stake in these top 10 "improvements", since my life (whether I like it or not) is being held hostage by OF, and future changes to it.
Accordingly, here are some questions which are personally very, very important to me:
1) In simple English, what are these top 10 changes; in particular:
a) what do they mean? ie., in laymen's English, please; and
b) what is their significance? Especially in terms of their
purported benefits to OF users?
2) True or false: You have people (your OF users) who are willing to work for you for 25 cents an hour, and you have not found a way to revise your business and revenue model, to capitalize on their willingness to do so.
3) True or false: The product of the the following:
a) the amount of time the average OF customer spends researching, interpreting, studying undocumented features/aspects of OF derived from forum posts
times
b) the number of customers who do this
times
c) twenty-five cents per hour,
is AT LEAST
TEN times what it would cost Omnigroup to hire a documentation specialist to capture
this information, and to create constantly updated new documentation.
3) Would it be worthwhile to consider whether you could offer an adjunct service ("premium" level) for a monthly subscription, where customers can get all this "STUFF" that appears on the Forum, digested and made simple, so that it does not require a degree in LIBRARY SCIENCE, to assemble, cross-reference, interpret and try to incorporate into their use of OF;
and would it be worthwhile to provide "best practice" case studies of how people solve problems and how they use OF, ie., what their routines are? And would it make sense to "spiff" people who offer such "case study" material (written up in layman's English by your documentation contractor)?
4) Is there life after birth?
5) Will the Mets win the pennant?