Re: [dev] 2surf, an experiment in tiled browsing

2011-06-13 Thread Hadrian Węgrzynowski
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:38:14 + Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: >On 6/11/11, Peter John Hartman wrote: >> Why not just utilize dwm's tile mode and have each link open in a new >> window? >Presumably so you don't have to close a window after every article you >examine, and resize the search results

Re: [dev] 2surf, an experiment in tiled browsing

2011-06-13 Thread David Tweed
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > On 6/11/11, Peter John Hartman wrote: >> Why not just utilize dwm's tile mode and have each link open in a new >> window? > Presumably so you don't have to close a window after every article you > examine, and resize the search results

Re: [dev] 2surf, an experiment in tiled browsing

2011-06-11 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On 6/12/11, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > But resizing a pager's window will cause it to reflow the text and confuse and annoy the user. Note to self: patch dwm against X's "sloppy focus".

Re: [dev] 2surf, an experiment in tiled browsing

2011-06-11 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On 6/11/11, Peter John Hartman wrote: > Why not just utilize dwm's tile mode and have each link open in a new > window? Presumably so you don't have to close a window after every article you examine, and resize the search results window. If you're going to resize the parent window every time befor

Re: [dev] 2surf, an experiment in tiled browsing

2011-06-11 Thread Jonathan Slark
On 11/06/2011 22:35, Peter John Hartman wrote: Why not just utilize dwm's tile mode and have each link open in a new window? I wrote a mouse button patch for surf, a while ago, that opens a new window on middle mouse button à la Firefox. It also allows using the forward and back buttons on m

Re: [dev] 2surf, an experiment in tiled browsing

2011-06-11 Thread Peter John Hartman
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 07:34:06PM +0200, Christian Neukirchen wrote: > Hey, > > I have been thinking about a Xanadu-style web browser (e.g. > http://xanadu.com.au/ted/XUsurvey/pingshot.gif) where you have two > panes, and each link opens in the other pane; this is especially nice > instead of the

[dev] 2surf, an experiment in tiled browsing

2011-06-11 Thread Christian Neukirchen
Hey, I have been thinking about a Xanadu-style web browser (e.g. http://xanadu.com.au/ted/XUsurvey/pingshot.gif) where you have two panes, and each link opens in the other pane; this is especially nice instead of the "click -> read -> back button"-cycle common when browsing lists of search results