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Do you envision it predominantly being used on a mobile device?
I (personally) found it a bit "fiddly" to aim for the horizontal scrollbar with my mouse -- maybe I missed an easy-to-use mechanic here?
In any case, I love this exploration of alternative browsing interfaces. Kudos to you for building this prototype!
Thank you for making and sharing this! Do you envision it predominantly being used on a mobile device? I (personally) found it a bit "fiddly" to aim for the horizontal scrollbar with my mouse -- maybe I missed an easy-to-use mechanic here? In any case, I love this exploration of alternative browsing interfaces. Kudos to you for building this prototype!
And thank you for the thanks! :)
I've been theorizing a similar idea for browsing Wikipedia (or pdfs), except it's only two panels. One is the current page, and the other is a Obsidian-like node graph. As you click on links, words, terms, or phrases in the article, new nodes are created. These would be concepts you're unfamiliar with.
This would build out a tree of ignorance, with an implicitly generated knowledge dependency graph, which you could systematically study.
My goal is to be able to delve into highly advanced topics for which I have little background knowledge, building out a "syllabus" as I go.
I love this style of rabbit holing. I would love a way to view my code at work with this method. Does anyone know if such a thing exists?
Have you considered using Golden Layout [1] to implement infinite panels + tabs that can be dragged around? [1] https://golden-layout.com/
I like the look of https://github.com/mathuo/dockview
This type of browser mode would be good for reading 2 or 3 articles at the same time, instead of switching from tab to tab.
For example, on gwern.net, we have a very nice Wikipedia popup integration (which is in some ways better than OP - eg we follow redirects and handle dark-mode natively), and while most readers never notice it and will use it in the basic recursive popup mode like https://gwern.net/doc/design/2021-04-01-gwern-gwernnet-annot... , it doesn't do just recursive popups.
It's actually basically a full-blown tiling WM with keyboard shortcuts! You can have an arbitrary number, drag & resize, resize them to fullscreen or aligned to an axis, etc. So you can popup as many as you want to fit on your screen and rearrange them like in this demo screenshot: https://gwern.net/doc/cs/js/2023-09-14-gwern-gwernnet-popups...
Would make for an incredible Obsidian plugin
https://help.obsidian.md/User+interface/Tabs#Stack+tab+group...
