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Re: Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly

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Post by vidarh »

bear8642 wrote: post #171
LeftHandPath wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love the spatial organization. I, not even five or six hours ago, had made a note on my iPhone describing something just like it (except where you would get to the spatial organization view by dragging down the bar at the top of the window). My thought was that we (humans) can remember spaces quite well, and certainly much better than we can track a tab's location in an ever-expanding list. IMO, spatial organizatio…

> when it makes its way to other operating systems. know you're referring to browser, but an OS - I think Oberon - had desktop as much larger than screen leading to ability to zoom around and create piles of windows

Active Object System / Bluebottle (2002) is the version of Oberon you might be thinking of. But many did it before that - the first variants go back to the early 70's at least.

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Post by pred_ »

raunak wrote: post #102
itwy wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And I am saying Bitwarden is not tied to a web browser - it has a desktop client.

You assume most people have the patience to copy paste passwords from Bitwarden rather than the ease of Lastpass - just doesn't work for 99% of the population.

I don't know about Keywarden, but KeePass just uses a global hotkey that can be used to type in your password in a context-dependent fashion (figures out the relevant password from the page you're on). No browser integration required, yet no UX hit. (Edit: But I have no idea if its "figure out what page you're on" functionality would work with Bonsai.)

Re: Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly

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Post by maydup-nem »

anigbrowl wrote: post #112

Love it, this is the most innovative thing in the browser space for a long while. It's baffling to me how boring most 'new' browsers are - most propositions are 'like X but with less friction on these 2 or 3 things'. I hate that it's only for Mac so far, but glad to see others are on the way. I've been thinking about picking up a cheap older mac for development work, though, and this is one more reason in favor.

Innovative? I have been using qutebrowser for a while, and don't see the appeal of this. I just press a binding, start typing the name of the tab (fuzzy), get the list of matches, choose and there I am. As a basic example among many. Nyxt is just as powerful, if not more.

If you like visual layouts like the one offered then OK, but not me, I think it's distracting and unnecessary.

BTW the headline is blown af

Re: Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly

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Post by dmje »

It's really nice, and a great idea but the lack of basic thought on look and feel really puts me off.

I know probably some feel this is trivial and not as important somehow as the idea / execution but to me it's critical that something is beautiful as well as functional. In this particular instance, it isn't even anything terribly hard - just pushing some spacing around, font sizes, making sure there are consistencies between UI elements, etc.

Sorry to be That Guy.

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Post by lelanthran »

btown wrote: post #146
eurasiantiger wrote: post #75

What I really want is a browser that displays information in a clear, unified format that I can customize to my liking. I want this browser to disregard all visual HTML and CSS rendering, and rather instrument a headless browser to gather the navigation and content from sites. I want to be able to easily make my own instrumentation for sites that do not yet work on this browser. I’m want to allow some branding in the…

I've thought often that one could write robust automation engines that boil any SaaS app down into a few functions: search(terms?: string) -> Promise expandItem(itemId: string) -> Promise # gets more details for the given item (e.g. a thread) and any child items (e.g. messages within the thread) ... One could build this for Gmail using https://inboxsdk.github.io/ , and other apps ranging from Slack to Google Calendar…

If you add in `list(grouplist?: string[])` you'll get 99% of the functionality that most controllers in MVC need.

Re: Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly

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Post by globular-toast »

JasonFruit wrote: post #10

Some of these features would be great built into a window manager. I'd love to be able to handle open windows the way you handle open pages.

I do this using workspaces. Have done for more than a decade of using Linux. The Unity WM for Ubuntu was quite good at this too.
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