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== Merged Bookmarks and Tab Bar | == Merged Bookmarks and Tab Bar == | ||
From the comments on this page, it seems a lot of people use the bookmarks toolbar. However, there are good reasons to remove it. Whether you have one bookmark or many, it takes up a large area and, more importantly, reduces vertical real estate. It does not serve any purpose when not being used, and, thus, is pure administrative debris during that time. Finally, it creates redundancy when a bookmarked page appears both as a bookmark and a tab. My solution is to focus on a certain class of bookmarks and put that on the tab bar. The leftmost area of the tab bar would be designated as the bookmarks area, with a somewhat different background colour and a clear separation between it and the rest of the tab bar. In order to bookmark a tab, one simply moves it over to the bookmarks area. Once bookmarked, the page is displayed there permanently. Loading a bookmark gives it a tab look, and closing the tab restores the bookmark look. Bookmarks would be reduced to favicons when space is constrained. | From the comments on this page, it seems a lot of people use the bookmarks toolbar. However, there are good reasons to remove it. Whether you have one bookmark or many, it takes up a large area and, more importantly, reduces vertical real estate. It does not serve any purpose when not being used, and, thus, is pure administrative debris during that time. Finally, it creates redundancy when a bookmarked page appears both as a bookmark and a tab. My solution is to focus on a certain class of bookmarks and put that on the tab bar. The leftmost area of the tab bar would be designated as the bookmarks area, with a somewhat different background colour and a clear separation between it and the rest of the tab bar. In order to bookmark a tab, one simply moves it over to the bookmarks area. Once bookmarked, the page is displayed there permanently. Loading a bookmark gives it a tab look, and closing the tab restores the bookmark look. Bookmarks would be reduced to favicons when space is constrained. | ||
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These bookmark-tab hybrids would behave like site-specific browsers. Suppose one has Gmail bookmarked. When browsing Gmail, the tab would always remain in Gmail. Any link to an outside domain would open in a separate tab. Thus, only a special class of pages would make sense here: frequently-accessed ''long-lived'' pages. These would include web apps (Gmail, Twitter, etc.) and any other pages that one tends to have open a lot without leaving (e.g., Planet Mozilla). Special integration with the browser could be offered to bookmarked pages. Even when not open, they could run a watcher in the background, presenting the user with notifications (''a la'' [http://abcdefu.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/introducing-yip-an-unified-notification-system-for-the-web/ Yip]), adding badges to the bookmark, and presenting a rich summary view on hover (similar to Web Slices and [http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8494 Webchunks]). | These bookmark-tab hybrids would behave like site-specific browsers. Suppose one has Gmail bookmarked. When browsing Gmail, the tab would always remain in Gmail. Any link to an outside domain would open in a separate tab. Thus, only a special class of pages would make sense here: frequently-accessed ''long-lived'' pages. These would include web apps (Gmail, Twitter, etc.) and any other pages that one tends to have open a lot without leaving (e.g., Planet Mozilla). Special integration with the browser could be offered to bookmarked pages. Even when not open, they could run a watcher in the background, presenting the user with notifications (''a la'' [http://abcdefu.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/introducing-yip-an-unified-notification-system-for-the-web/ Yip]), adding badges to the bookmark, and presenting a rich summary view on hover (similar to Web Slices and [http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8494 Webchunks]). | ||
—[[User:David Regev|David Regev]] 07:43, 2 August 2009 (UTC) | |||
:I love this idea, but would take it one step further and iconify those bookmarks that are not 'active'. This would be similar to the homepage button on the mockups on the main wiki page, but allow for many such buttons. --[[User:Dawonn|Dawonn]] 16:24, 6 September 2009 (UTC) | |||
:Would this really save screen real-estate? As it is, you can set up a small bookmarks toolbar, with just as few bookmarks as you would want to put on the tab bar, and put it next to your toolbar buttons/URL bar. This leaves more space for the tabs themselves.... With your solution, there's more room in the toolbars but less in the tab bar. | :Would this really save screen real-estate? As it is, you can set up a small bookmarks toolbar, with just as few bookmarks as you would want to put on the tab bar, and put it next to your toolbar buttons/URL bar. This leaves more space for the tabs themselves.... With your solution, there's more room in the toolbars but less in the tab bar. | ||