Jan Schepanski

Goals & Non-Goals

Goals

• make use of todays technology (higher resolutions and color depth, more memory, faster prozessors, gpu-processing) and interface elements such as drag 'n drop, (multi)touch
• forget everything about tabs, bookmarks and history
• one interface for everything - seamless browsing

Non-Goals

• do minor enhancements to the old interface
• build on top of outdated ideas

Description

there should be more. really.

Visualisation

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(older concept)

Animation

Older concept.

Some basics/ideas

Toolwindows

• Toolwindows make no sense. No one needs extra windows so they should be inside the browser.
• Toolwindows could be some kind of app. So lets redefine:

Window=window.open(,'name','toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,menubar=no, scrollbars=no,resizable=no,width=500,height=200')

could mean: create an "app" which is 500x200 in pixels. This box can be moved around, snapped, dragged, dropped. It doesn't depend on anything. Its just there and doing something. Maybe an online radio, a chat, an calculator.

MORE TO COME

Links

APPS

• Googles Web App Store gestartet
• Firefox 4 Beta 2 - Mit App Tabs und schnellerem Scrollen
• Mozillas Open Web App Ecosystem macht Fortschritte

ZUI (Zooming User Interfaces)

• Zooming_user_interface on Wikipedia
• Zoomable website navigation
• Microsoft Pivot
• Image Viewer build with Flash
• Old ZUI browser concept based on Java

OTHERS

• Lifestream – Redesign history and bookmarking – Wei Zhou
• Firefox Panorama/Tab Candy
• Radial Tree - Concept sorting and displaying informations in a radial form

The Browser History

Little sketch to visualize the problem of presenting the todays non-linear browsing history.

Some Images

(Screenshot of Fences more Informations on stardock.com)

(Screenshot of the webbrowser Safari, more Informations on Apple.com)