On Feb 20, 2006, at 3:39 PM, Peter Harvey wrote:
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 15:02 +1300, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: ...I think entries in the auto-complete menu should be ordered by how often they've been visited in the past. This is how at least Firefox and Safari work.I agree with this for history items. Perhaps sorting by the most frequently visited site/domain, rather than url.
I think URL would be better. If I go to <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/> very often, and <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/> not quite so often, and later I try to get to <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/> by typing "bu" into the address field, I don't want to have to scroll past a whole truckload of bugzilla.gnome.org/* addresses just because they're in the same domain as <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/>.
But for the bookmark items, I feel the user is trying to navigating through an existing fixed/chosen structure. Arranging them in logical groupings should help there more than "most recent". More formally, I see the use case for history items is: - I want to go back to somewhere I've just been recently whereas the use case for bookmarks is: - I want to find something in my personal collection ...
I see them both as "I want to back to somewhere I was at before". Bookmarking a page is a way of saying "make sure I can always do that, even if I don't visit the page again for a long time". (Which is partly why I propose calling the menu "Remember".)
-- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/