[Camino] bookmarks viewer preview feature concept

[S. Woodside]

On Apr 4, 2006, at 9:24 AM, Mike Pinkerton wrote:

> Instead of it being live, why not have it just be a thumbnail of  
> the last time you visited the page? Sure, we'd have to keep around  
> a cached thumbnail, but that's not that big of a deal.

Hmm.. that's a good point. I wonder which would be more useful...

> I guess that doesn't solve your "can't see the page at the same  
> time" problem.

Well, it sort of solves it. I think a thumbnail would help get the  
sort of "visual gist".

> Isn't a real solution for that to allow a standalone bookmarks  
> window if the user really wants one?

I wouldn't want a standalone bookmarks window, personally, it would  
be too awkward to be flipping back and forth.


On Apr 4, 2006, at 8:44 AM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote:
> Personally, I like the idea, not so much for bookmarks (I got into the
> habit of making sure those things have a meaningfull title), but for
> my recent history (whose data still could be fetched from cache ?) -
> it could help quickly getting back at that one article that was so
> interesting.

That's a pretty interesting idea -- would it maybe result in a huge  
number of cached thumbnails though?


On Apr 4, 2006, at 8:00 AM, Smokey Ardisson wrote:
> 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

That will make it so much easier.

--simon

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