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Posted by Chris Murtland
May 21, 2006 at 12:35 AM
Daly de Gagne wrote:
>When I came back to selector item for the url I had first selected and
>clicked on it I was taken to the *last* site I had been at—not the site the selector item
>was originally set for. I have never seen any other program do this, and it is
>somemthing that I had long ago complained to Micro Logic about.
Actually, I’d say this behavior may be desired in many cases. Let’s say you are doing some research or just following some links and you have to move away from the web item to access something else in the IS file. If the web item automatically reset to the initial URL, you’d lose your place with that particular web item any time you navigated away from it. The way it is now, you can always, right-click the web item and choose “Go to initial URL” to get back to the original URL.
Of course, it is a behavior that would perhaps be best set as an option. That way, users could choose which way works best for them.
Chris
Posted by Daly de Gagne
May 21, 2006 at 01:00 AM
Chris, thanks for that. It does make sense. I wish the people at Micro Logic had told me that when I first wrote to them about it. Instead, my emails were ignored.
Daly
Chris Murtland wrote:
>Daly de Gagne wrote:
>>When I came back to selector item for the url I had first selected
>and
>>clicked on it I was taken to the *last* site I had been at—not the site the
>selector item
>>was originally set for. I have never seen any other program do this,
>and it is
>>somemthing that I had long ago complained to Micro Logic
>about.
>
>Actually, I’d say this behavior may be desired in many cases. Let’s say you
>are doing some research or just following some links and you have to move away from the
>web item to access something else in the IS file. If the web item automatically reset to
>the initial URL, you’d lose your place with that particular web item any time you
>navigated away from it. The way it is now, you can always, right-click the web item and
>choose “Go to initial URL” to get back to the original URL.
>
>Of course, it is a behavior
>that would perhaps be best set as an option. That way, users could choose which way
>works best for them.
>
>Chris
Posted by Captain CowPie
May 26, 2006 at 04:33 PM
I was hoping IS9 would include a little more power in their browser. In keeping with my theme of trying to do almost everything in IS, I am now experimenting with doing all of my browsing inside the program. Right now I use Maxthon and Firefox, and usually have 15-20 tabs open at all times. I have set up Maxthon to open all links in a new tab, and I can open multiple tabs on a page by using
(still trying to figure out how to do this in Firefox).
Someone mentioned that you can drag URLs from an email or web page to the selector, and it will make a new web page. That is extremely powerful, and I have been using it extensively the past few days. That way I can have all of my web pages accessible, but they are just on the side (like iRider) as opposed to in tabs across the top. What I had asked for was the option to have a new web page open when I click on a link, or possibly using a key combination like Maxthon. That would change my browsing habits altogether. Maybe something like making IS the default browser?
The other alternative is having tabs. Unfortunately, I don’t think we will see any of these until ISX.
Vince
Chris Murtland wrote:
>Actually, I’d say this behavior may be desired in many cases. Let’s say you
>are doing some research or just following some links and you have to move away from the
>web item to access something else in the IS file. If the web item automatically reset to
>the initial URL, you’d lose your place with that particular web item any time you
>navigated away from it. The way it is now, you can always, right-click the web item and
>choose “Go to initial URL” to get back to the original URL.
>
>Of course, it is a behavior
>that would perhaps be best set as an option. That way, users could choose which way
>works best for them.
>
>Chris