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joeltg / visual-history

Back and forward buttons are obsolete
http://joelgustafson.com/projects/visual-history/
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Global history #4

Open nothingmuch opened 8 years ago

nothingmuch commented 8 years ago

As someone who browses the web breadth first, I would be very happy if I could keep a persistent history tree of everything, where new tabs are rooted in their parent tabs' history trees.

joeltg commented 8 years ago

Interesting. I thought about this when first designing the layout, and decided that it would get too cluttered too quickly. Lots of people regularly keep 50+ tabs open, and trying to lay them all out on one page wouldn't be as useful as working withing each tab.

Unless there's a lot of demand, I probably won't change this, although you're welcome to add it as an option yourself and submit a PR.

On a side note, I've been thinking of making a Visual History-esque mobile browser. As someone who browses the web breadth first, how would you like a mobile browser that ditches tabs altogether, and just has connected nodes on a canvas that you can zoom into, out of, and between?

nothingmuch commented 8 years ago

I think the UI should stay almost exactly the same, with an an ellided link for derived pages going to the parent tab's history tree. At least that's how I imagined it. My ulterior goal is to archive this to make sense of my history/browsing habits later.

As for mobile browsing - I tend to avoid it because switching between things is a bit hard. I can certainly see how a tree UI would help me to browse like a normal person, and therefore would help me to browse on my phone, but I doubt I'm a representative example and phone are not very practical for this mode of information binging ;-)

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Interesting. I thought about this when first designing the layout, and decided that it would get too cluttered too quickly. Lots of people regularly keep 50+ tabs open, and trying to lay them all out on one page wouldn't be as useful as working withing each tab.

Unless there's a lot of demand, I probably won't change this, although you're welcome to add it as an option yourself and submit a PR.

On a side note, I've been thinking of making a Visual History-esque mobile browser. As someone who browses the web breadth first, how would you like a mobile browser that ditches tabs altogether, and just has connected nodes on a canvas that you can zoom into, out of, and between?

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