Re: One window per URL

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Peter Harvey wrote:

> a with the zoom-level. But to be truly document oriented,
> would that mean remembering the position of the scroll bar? Or

Well I concede that going back to the last scrollbar position is not 
something you'd typically want when opening a new webpage (as opposed to 
pressing Back for instance).

> 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.

That is correct, and I think it's mostly a limitation imposed by the 
current windowing model in GNOME. If you think window cluttering is bad 
in spatial nautilus, imagine what that would be like if we'd open a new 
window for each and every clicked link! <dream> What if closing a tab or 
window was just another way of saying "minimize to History", and after a 
certain amount of inactivity time, web pages would dissolve to the 
History by themselves, and you'd be able to restore them from the 
history with a minimum of effort in the exact state where you left them? 
</dream>

> 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?

The distinction you're making is that between static and dynamic 
documents. Epiphany 1.7 already auto-updates the view of locally 
modified files (I think). However, the way the Web is set up, I don't 
think a webserver can just tell a user agent that a certain recently 
requested web page has been updated.

regards,

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