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Re: Show HN: I am building a next-gen browser

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Post by ashraful » Sat, Aug 20, 2011, 5:48 AM UTC

systemizer wrote: post #18

I wouldn't call this a next generation browser. What I'd like to see is a browser that eliminates the url bar. I don't know how that would be done and you'd probably lose functionality along the way, but from a UX standpoint, it sounds awesome. I would like to browse the internet with only a touch screen; maybe integrate the zoom-in touchpad movement with link previews. Anyone?

Removing the URL bar entirely is not possible now, since typing in URLs is still fairly common. De-emphasizing it (like I do in Browsr) is a step towards what you are talking about.

Re: Show HN: I am building a next-gen browser

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Post by ashraful » Sat, Aug 20, 2011, 5:57 AM UTC

runjake wrote: post #20

I wouldn't call it next-generation. To me, it really resembles what the Flock browser was trying to accomplish.

Flock was more interested in integrating other social networks directly into the browser.

Browsr doesn't do that, although native web apps provide a similar convenience.

Browsr main objective is to make the browsers that default place to keep user data. Instead of you social connections being on Facebook's server or Google's server, it should be on your PC. Users can let other services access this info (or even store it) but they don't get tied in to these services.

Re: Show HN: I am building a next-gen browser

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Post by civilian » Sat, Aug 20, 2011, 6:04 AM UTC

systemizer wrote: post #18

I wouldn't call this a next generation browser. What I'd like to see is a browser that eliminates the url bar. I don't know how that would be done and you'd probably lose functionality along the way, but from a UX standpoint, it sounds awesome. I would like to browse the internet with only a touch screen; maybe integrate the zoom-in touchpad movement with link previews. Anyone?

What?! I'm so against this-- I think that my first understanding of the internet really came from looking at url structures as I surfed. It made me realize where I could explore, what subsections I could change to get different results. Sure, it's meaningless to the general populace, but it's still a good feature. Additionally, if there wasn't a url bar then it might be harder to detect phishing.

Re: Show HN: I am building a next-gen browser

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Post by Androsynth » Sat, Aug 20, 2011, 6:10 AM UTC

pero wrote: post #5

Don't know if this is intentional, but I really like the use of she in reference to the user in the blogpost. I've never seen that before and it's very refreshing, seemingly valorizing the user as if they were a country or a vessel. Consider it "borrowed"; thank you.

It seems like everyone these days is using she. Its perfectly acceptable english to use 'they'. For example: Once a user is signed in, they are taken... Much better imo, as the gender is meaningless in that sentence.

Re: Show HN: I am building a next-gen browser

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Post by wunderfool » Sat, Aug 20, 2011, 6:29 AM UTC

haha why are people wasting time commenting on photoshops?

and the author's comments here are hilariously ambitious. don't stop there dude, you need to write your own c++ compiler to do this right

Re: Show HN: I am building a next-gen browser

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Post by losvedir » Sat, Aug 20, 2011, 6:57 AM UTC

Androsynth wrote: post #24

pero wrote: post #5

Don't know if this is intentional, but I really like the use of she in reference to the user in the blogpost. I've never seen that before and it's very refreshing, seemingly valorizing the user as if they were a country or a vessel. Consider it "borrowed"; thank you.

It seems like everyone these days is using she. Its perfectly acceptable english to use 'they'. For example: Once a user is signed in, they are taken... Much better imo, as the gender is meaningless in that sentence.

Absolutely. People complain about it being plural, but words in English have both number and gender, and I don't see why being "wrong" on the number is any worse than being "wrong" on gender.

That said, it's not "wrong" at all because English has a long history of using the word "they" for a generic pronoun. It's basically a different word from the "they" in "they are my friends", just written and pronounced the same.

Re: Show HN: I am building a next-gen browser

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Post by sadlyNess » Sat, Aug 20, 2011, 6:59 AM UTC

pero wrote: post #5

Don't know if this is intentional, but I really like the use of she in reference to the user in the blogpost. I've never seen that before and it's very refreshing, seemingly valorizing the user as if they were a country or a vessel. Consider it "borrowed"; thank you.

Can't find any reference online, but remember that some US grammar teacher had proposed using him'er and his'er but just never caught on.

Re: Show HN: I am building a next-gen browser

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Post by sliverstorm » Sat, Aug 20, 2011, 7:51 AM UTC

patrickaljord wrote: post #15

Couldn't that be done as a browser extension? It's a lot of work to maintain a browser and you will reach many more people by doing it as an extension.

Not to mention a lot of the browser wars right now are about core performance, as UI cues are rapidly picked up by every competitor. You can't directly compete with entire teams on that playing field.

Re: Show HN: I am building a next-gen browser

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Post by agilebyte » Sat, Aug 20, 2011, 8:42 AM UTC

When you say you are building a browser, do you mean you will implement a new way of rendering the documents as well, or are you "simply" slapping a new UI on say webkit?

Re: Show HN: I am building a next-gen browser

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Post by SimHacker » Sat, Aug 20, 2011, 9:01 AM UTC

patrickaljord wrote: post #15

Couldn't that be done as a browser extension? It's a lot of work to maintain a browser and you will reach many more people by doing it as an extension.

But THIS Browsr is Diffrnt! It does not have an "e" before the final "r". So it WILL be Vry Successfl! Just like all the other companis that leav the e out of their nams.