[Camino] bookmarks viewer preview feature concept

[Smokey Ardisson]

At 2:47 AM -0400 on 4/4/06, S. Woodside wrote:
>I made up a concept drawing this weekend of a new feature for Camino:
>   http://simonwoodside.com/weblog/2006/03/31

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>When you click on a bookmark, the preview pane will load and display 
>the site as it currently appears.
>
>I'd be interested in comments and thoughts. It probably wouldn't be 
>too hard to implement. The bit I'm most uncertain about is scaling 
>the view to thumbnail size.

There's code in Gecko 1.8 to create arbitrary-sized images of a 
page's rendered appearance; roc added it last summer or fall, and a 
couple of Fx extensions are using it already

I'm not convinced of the utility of it (I have pages bookmarked 
because I know what they are, mostly) and I echo the other concerns 
with the delay/speed issue, since I'm on dialup a lot of the time 
still.

That said, if those can be worked around, it does seem like a "neat" 
feature and possibly a nice touch.

Smokey
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