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Originally Posted by furrball
In my opinion, there is no need to save URLs when a server was down. If people find them so important, they can just keep a tab open and hit refresh every second day or so.
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Agreed.
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Originally Posted by furrball
I can't search through 50 URLs, because:
- the window is too small horizontally and truncates long URLs
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This can be made better by using a standalone location bar – hit Alt-Cmd-L.
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Originally Posted by furrball
- they are sorted in some weird way (probably by date)
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IMHO this is the best way – I'm always annoyed by Opera's behaviour to show the hits in alphabetical order, which often gives a misspelled URL as first entry, leading me back to that wrong URL again. Additionally, it is nearly impossible to get "the page on that server I saw last when I visited that server recently", especially in forums, where there is no hint on the topic in the URL.
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- who in the world can recognize a page by a 60 digit URL anyway? I look for the TLD and if it's right, I click it and go from there - much faster than searching the correct history entry
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Agreed. What about the follwing solution: In the location bar, OW only autocompletes the server, i.e. when you hit return, you will be taken to the home page. In the suggestions below, though, it shows all results in the manner it already does. So hitting cursor down, then return, will take you to laste page visited on that server.
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Originally Posted by furrball
And here comes an even better suggestion:
Augment the location bar search with clustering. Right now I can type in "apple mouse" and find all URLs with both terms in either page title or URL. These are sorted by domain, which is great. But what if all hits from one domain were grouped together and collapsed, like a mail.app thread? This would save lots of screen space, and the user could fly over the list, quickly locating the relevant group. A click on a button would then reveal all hits from that particular server, visually identified by a colored box or something.
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This doesn't sound bad, yes. There is a problem, though, regarding stringent UI design if keyboard input is used: Imagne you go through the links with the cursor keys: What should happen, if the user presses space or return on a collapsed element? Space would normally bring you back to an empty location bar with only a space in it. And return? Should it go directly to foo.bar.com (without path), as this is what is shown as the element title? Or should it rather uncollapse the entries underneath?
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could be done if only cursor right and cursor left are used for collapsing/uncollapsing entries. That would, however, also lead to some unexpected behaviour for those who use this feature for the first time and didn't read the help about it.
Not so easy.
Maybe make it a configurable option and show a hint on how it works when it is enabled for the first time?