Re: Post-1.10 location entry auto-completion

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On Feb 20, 2006, at 3:39 PM, Peter Harvey wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 15:02 +1300, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> ...
> > I think entries in the auto-complete menu should be ordered by how
> > often they've been visited in the past. This is how at least Firefox
> > and Safari work.
>
> I agree with this for history items. Perhaps sorting by the most
> frequently visited site/domain, rather than url.

I think URL would be better. If I go to <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/> 
very often, and <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/> not quite so often, and 
later I try to get to <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/> by typing "bu" 
into the address field, I don't want to have to scroll past a whole 
truckload of bugzilla.gnome.org/* addresses just because they're in the 
same domain as <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/>.

> But for the bookmark items, I feel the user is trying to navigating
> through an existing fixed/chosen structure. Arranging them in logical
> groupings should help there more than "most recent".
>
> More formally, I see the use case for history items is:
>  - I want to go back to somewhere I've just been recently
> whereas the use case for bookmarks is:
>  - I want to find something in my personal collection
> ...

I see them both as "I want to back to somewhere I was at before". 
Bookmarking a page is a way of saying "make sure I can always do that, 
even if I don't visit the page again for a long time". (Which is partly 
why I propose calling the menu "Remember".)

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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