Trailblazer

[Adam Hooper <adamh densi com>]

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I know I'm not the first to notice this neat new browser:
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/macwarriors/projects/trailblazer/. Its one
feature is its History browser, which graphs every page you went to:
each page is a thumbnail and title, and there are arrows showing the
order in which you visited them. You can perform a quick text search on
your entire history -- it searches "as you type," which means it must be
indexed in a clever way.

Anyway, obviously it'd be cool if we could bring some of this history
searching into Epiphany. I'd say the most important feature is indexing
of all pages (for full-text searches); slightly less important is the
thumbnailing of web pages. Naturally, this could start out as an
extension and then eventually be wrapped into Epiphany in the next
release or two if it turns out to be easy to use and indispensable.

I don't know the status of Storage, but it seems like it could be an
ideal mechanism. Anyone (read: Marco) know if I'm thinking along
appropriate lines here? Or how I'd go about implementing this?

Alternatively, maybe Medusa's indexing engine could be used.

And maybe it'd be a good idea to use the freedesktop standard for
thumbnails (~/.thumbnails) -- who knows if other browsers (Galeon,
Konqueror) would follow suit and could share thumbnails -- but I imagine
that would complicate clearing history and might slow down everything
since so many files would appear in a single directory.

So... any thoughts? I'm trying to keep my mind wide-open. It *does* seem
like it could be a killer app for Storage though, if Storage is really
the appropriate tool.

Actually, it'd be a killer app, period. Man, would it ever rock.

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Adam Hooper
adamh densi com
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