Re: Completely unsatisfied navigational scenario

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

Hi,

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Matthew Thomas wrote:

> Your expectation is exactly that documented by one of my former lecturers, 
> Andy Cockburn, and his colleagues in a study of how people return to Web 
> pages

I already filed bugs based on Cockburn's recommendations a while ago:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161872
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161876

> They are easily available in Firefox's "Go" menu, Internet Explorer for Mac's 
> "Go" menu, and Safari's "History" menu. They are not available in Epiphany's 
> "Go" menu, which annoys me

A temporal Back menu would solve this particular problem, although I 
understand there are usability issues with Back and Forward themselves.

> As I said last month, I think any browser with Back and Forward buttons 
> doesn't fulfil Epiphany's claim of "the simplest interface possible for a 
> browser".

regards,

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Reinout van Schouwen