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Re: User Centric Web

krishna.sash...@gmail.com (Sashank) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:29:51 UT

No one read this ? or read but not excited about this ?

It would be a whole new web experience if it was user centric , users
need not hop from site to site for doing the same stuff .

and a browser like firefox would be best place to start with if we are
designing some thing of this sort ..

User Centric Web

krishna.sash...@gmail.com (Sashank) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:00:04 UT

Hi ,

For quite some time by now , i have been thinking on this .
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Is the web really came out of age? Currently the web is more of
Server centric or rather Service Provider centric or Website centric.

Re: Firefox GUI – An idea

k1au3_is...@yahoo.de (Klau3) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:25:56 UT

Hey guys!
From today view my idea was not so bad, looking at Chrome OS -
[link]

A lot of my ideas are integrated in a similar way there (some of them
are more radical, but they go in the same direction). The 'Home Tab'
could be what I called 'Fire Desktop' from where you manage the

Re: Browser use - Research Results?

pfine...@mozilla.com (Pascal Finette) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:56:30 UT

Yepp, working on it! :)

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Pascal Finette | Catalyst | Mozilla Labs | [link]

Re: Media depend document.

pfine...@mozilla.com (Pascal Finette) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:56:11 UT

Hey Lachu,

I'm not sure how this XML schema is easier than HTML... I can see
where you're coming from but it seems like a pretty complicated way to
get there... ;)

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Pascal Finette | Catalyst | Mozilla Labs | [link]

Re: Browser use - Research Results?

jan_c_dittr...@arcor.de (Jan Dittrich) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:39:19 UT

Hi Chris,
the questions you are asking are the ones I have as well. I think
bookmarking is still an important issue.

- Bookmarks in the Browser: A common thing I see is bookmarking, but
no organisation. (could mean: bookmarking is easy, but not ordering
bookmarks). But many people dont use bookmarking in the browser at

Re: Media depend document.

sla...@lach.art.pl (Lachu) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:30:31 UT

I must admit, it should be next step in offer web based application,
because webmasters can create service, don't think about a information
presented on page. Actually without CMS system and without possibility
to wrote script to work on server webmasters must edit each page.
By changing the situation we can allow to co-exist tools to create

Media depend document.

sla...@lach.art.pl (Lachu) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:23:26 UT

I know you will say: the web should been independent from media type.
I must agree.

But basically many people doesn't create web pages, because the
information and style/process method is still connected. Imagine in
all web documents I must put information about the style, etc.

I must admit the idea is quirk and it's only a proposition. Currently

Re: Browser use - Research Results?

m.eugenia.or...@gmail.com (Euge) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:04:23 UT

Hi Chris, this is an interesting subject! I am reading your questions
and I think it could be useful for you to group the questions: e.g.
Design, User Behavior, Current trends, Future trends, etc. in order to
make the investigation more organized.

Here some things that I have found (not using bookmarks! I have a good

Re: Browser use - Research Results?

chofm...@gmail.com (Chris Hofmann) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:15:08 UT

here are some questions about bookmarks that we have been brainstorming on
and may do some studies on in the coming months.

brain dump follows. -- if you come up with any interesting research or
studies on any of these areas please share.

-chofmann

what might be the distribution of the browser population that uses

Re: Browser use - Research Results?

tab...@gmail.com (Marcio Galli) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:58:58 UT

Looks like it could be interesting, as the Concept Series gets more
popular, for Labs to offer means to support folks to run their own
"mini" Concept Series equivalent events at any time as long as it fits
some criterias that Labs can run. Concept Series To-Go sort of.

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Re: Browser use - Research Results?

pfine...@mozilla.com (Pascal Finette) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:45:22 UT

There is some debate about whether bookmarks are "dead" or not - a lot
of people don't seem to use them anymore, instead relying on Google
and/or browser features like the Awesomebar instead.
Check out the design briefs from the recent Design Challenges - they
all have somewhat related links to research, etc:

Re: Browser use - Research Results?

jan_c_dittr...@arcor.de (Jan Dittrich) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:29:01 UT

Thanks! I'll check it ut. Seems to be helpful.
I have problems to find anything on bookmarking use. (Which is what I
want to concentrate on) One gets a lot of social bookmarking-whatever,
but nothing on browsers! So I it would really help a lot to have some
links for that.

jan

Re: Browser use - Research Results?

pfine...@mozilla.com (Pascal Finette) — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:40:16 UT

Hi Jan,
Check this out:
[link]
Also - there is a ton of research out there, simply google it a bit. :)
P'

Browser use - Research Results?

jan_c_dittr...@arcor.de (Jan Dittrich) — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:51:02 UT

Hello to you all -
I am about to start a project at my university about browser design.
It would be great to have some links on previously done research on
how people use their browsers: How extensive are tabs used? Bookmarks
used? Or just history? etc.
So if somebody has some resources on that to share it, would be great