Re: One window per URL

[Peter Harvey <pah06 uow edu au>]

>Of course. But would you also be in favour of re-instating a
File > 
>Quit menu option? Or of not remembering the zoom level per
webpage? 
>That would be a consequence of not being document-oriented.

I actually like the File/Quit option, but I'll admit you have
a with the zoom-level. But to be truly document oriented,
would that mean remembering the position of the scroll bar? Or
is that heading too far in the spatial direction? Please
correct as necessary.

>> But there is no editing of webpages (unless you count a
wiki). It is 
>> clear to the user that each browser window provides just a
view of the 
>> underlying document,
>
>Is it? Not trying to be rude, but have you observed any
average user 
>surf the Web lately? It is hard to fathom their mental model
of a web 
>browser and how it relates to web pages, I can tell you.

Hehe, yeah, true. But if we continue to open links in the
current window I think we're already not document-oriented.
Each page is a "document" so should get another window, right?
We're "view-oriented" if there is such a thing.

>I don't think you want people to think of the Web as 
>something as confusing as a room full of mirrors.

Fair enough, but my point was that a web browser shows just an
image of a document. Perhaps a room of recently-taken photos
would be a better example. See below.

>I've opened a bug for the same issue with Evince, and at
least their 
>developers seem to agree with me:
>
>http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302034

I agree with your point on evince. The difference with evince
is that the window does correspond to a fixed document on my
computer. To make my point, should http://bash.org/?random1 be
regarded as a document?

Regards,
Peter.