Thanks John. Just installed Firefox Beta V4, Firefox Panorama is awesome. |-----Original Message----- |From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz |[mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of John Bird |Sent: Tuesday, 14 December 2010 4:36 p.m. |To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List |Subject: Re: [DUG] Problem redeeming Delphi XE BOGO free product | |?[Browsers contd] | |10 seconds to page loaded is impressive when there are 269 |tabs open in 20 groups, current group has 20+ tabs so all of |those are pretty much loaded |too - so yes that is fast. 1 or 2 tabs is a lot faster again. | |lots of tabs is useful if the browser handles it effortlessly, |rather than |bookmarking and closing them I just leave them open. |Particularly useful |for tabs I don't want to bookmark or keep long-term, and will |only refer to for a day or so. Think of it as an alternative |to bookmarks and opening bookmarks. | |Firefox Panorama allows one to organise open tabs into |different groups, and drag and drop them from one group to |another. The browser is pretty much only dealing with the one |current group of tabs at once (others are a |keystroke or two away). Its like the multiple desktops |available in linux, |or MacOS. | |This is Off-topic - but relevant to Delphi in that these are |new paradigms about how to handle more objects than fit in a |menu or dropdown list. The Vista/Windows 7 way is to make a |terrific search box. The Delphi XE IDE |(IDE insight) and Windows Live Mail filtering does the same |idea. The MS |Office way is to introduce the ribbon menus to find options |more easily. | |In Delphi applications the most usual approach is to filter a |large dataset in a grid. | |The Firefox Panorama is quite a new paradigm - organise groups |visually on screen yourself by spatial placement - the user |chooses the size and |placement. Way more intuitive than folders. Its an |outstanding design |IMHO. There are some issues with it, (mainly speed but |largely cured with hardware/graphics acceleration) but its as |new an idea as the Ribbon in |Office, or multi-touch. But worth checking out as such a |design is likely |to be used and copied in lots of other software in future. | |John | |Is 10 secs supposed to be impressive ? | |Chrome+ (note: NOT Google Chrome) 1.5.0 - start and load my |iGoogle home |page is < 4 secs on my system (and that includes all widgets - |TradeMe, Stuff, BBC F1 News, Stack Overflow, Delphi Feeds) |having completed their initial update). | | | |>> handle 200+ tabs using same memory as most other browsers |with 10-20 |>> tabs. | |>Whoop-de-doo... | |>Show me a *USER* that can [productively] handle 10-20 tabs and I'd be |>surprised. :) | |>200+ tabs... useful for feature list bragging rights, but |beyond that... ? | |Thats a bit like saying who would ever need more than 10 files |in a folder so why cater for it? | |http://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&biw=1600&bih=776&defl=en&q |=define:luddite&sa=X&ei=BeQGTc3NFNTNnAetj8nlDQ&ved=0CBUQkAE | |_______________________________________________ |NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list |Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz |Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi |Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz |with Subject: |unsubscribe | | |_______________________________________________ |NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list |Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz |Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi |Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz |with Subject: unsubscribe | ##################################################################################### Scanned by MailMarshal - M86 Security's comprehensive email content security solution. Download a free evaluation of MailMarshal at www.m86security.com #####################################################################################
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