On 22 Apr 2011 Tim Hill wrote: > In article > <out-4dade8b7.md-1.4.17.chris.yo...@unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk>, Chris > Young <chris.yo...@unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk> wrote: >> On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:12:23 +0100, Tim Hill wrote:
>>> On the subject of searching, is there any future plan to implement >>> search from the URL bar? I would like to type, say, 'banana' into the >>> bar and a search result to appear if a DN lookup fails to find >>> http://banana >> That was present at one point but has been disabled/removed. Some of >> the other frontends have a dedicated search bar alongside the URL bar, >> you might want to put a feature request in for one to be added to the >> RISC OS frontend. > Um, no. I would rather the search from the RISC OS front end was > performed from the single text input icon, as I think I said. Having a > 'search box' alongside it is a waste of screen real-estate as it could be > performed within existing furniture. I agree, but why not just put a search box on your local home page? My default startup page has links for all my usual sites, including formlets for logging in where possible (i.e. forms with just a submit button, the username and password fields being preset and hidden), and forms for Google, ebay and streetmap.co.uk. [snip] > In one case nearly 50% of the screen was covered in add-on toolbars to > MIE. :-o Doncha just love Windows' redundancy paradigm? Thanks heavens > for f11. I've just had to set up a Windross laptop. Internet Exploder was so full of crap I didn't even bother to clean it up - I just used it to download Firefox. -- Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/ mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.
