[Epiphany] Re: Page Snapback feature

[Daniel Borgmann <spark-mailinglists web de>]

On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 17:49, David Adam Bordoley wrote:
> Daniel Borgmann writes: 
> 
> > Hello! 
> > 
> > When I looked at this screenshot:
> > http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/screeds/safarisafari/05-bookmarks-history.jpg
> > the "SnapBack" thing caught my attention. First I wondered why Apple
> > would put something that obscure in their browser, but then I realized,
> > that I would use this feature all the time. Every time I'm viewing a
> > large list or overview of something, I open links in new tabs, not
> > because I want to read them later but because I want to be able to
> > quickly return to the overview page. 
> > A good example would be reading a footnotes page with lots of comments,
> > a bugzilla list or browsing art.gnome.org. 
> > Any chance that this will make it into Epiphany? It would make my day.
> > :) And it shouldn't even be that hard to do I assume. 
> > 
> > Daniel
> 
> I've read some critical comments on snapback. 
> 
> For one mpt makes the point that it can be confusing having two "back 
> buttons" that look similar but act slightly different. 

Well, adding another back button seems like an unrelated issue to me. I
wasn't thinking of that but just using the menu (or shortcuts).


> Also the main reason that apple included the snap back feature was to avoid 
> the use of a combo box, a gui element that they have historically avoided. 
> 
> We can provide snapback functionality pretty easily already anyway. Clicking 
> on the combo box down button should display the most recently entered 
> addresses in order from most recent to least recent. If it doesn't i 
> consider it a bug. 

It does, but usually this menu is full of entries with completely equal
titles so it's useless to me. It is also often difficult to find what
I'm looking for when I browse too many pages.
However, how about including the page snapback in this menu as a special
item (in bold maybe)? Then it can never get lost and one can find it
easily. You would only need one menu item then (to set the snapback
page).

Daniel