Comments on: the new finder in the jungle safari http://droom.zaacht.com/2007/01/the-new-finder-in-the-jungle-safari/ colorless green ideas sleep furiously Sun, 17 Oct 2010 05:59:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: danny http://droom.zaacht.com/2007/01/the-new-finder-in-the-jungle-safari/comment-page-1/#comment-10 danny Mon, 29 Jan 2007 05:23:42 +0000 http://dannywho.frwrd.net/2007/01/20/the-new-finder-in-the-jungle-safari/#comment-10 Sure, I do understand there's a lot happening inside (as in content) and outside (as in third-aprty improvements) browsers, but the main core is greatly dated even for last year's needs. I agree that mobile has many things to offer, but my picture comes from way ahead in the future (couple of years from now): iPhone has OS X inside, and a reduced but cutting-edge processing power, which will increase twofold every 6 months. So in a 2-year span, we'll have mobile devices capable of running today's browsers. For me, whomever has the best browser *now* will have the best mobile browser in a year or two. Sure future's unpredictability also grows exponentially, but this is not science fiction, and unless a breakout comes, browsers are still (and you agree with me) the best way to come up with cross-platform, zero install, ubiquitous software. I love mobile, but I see it moving the same direction web was moving in 1996, so let me be scared and boggled by it. Though it might be just my perception that's completely wrong. Sure, I do understand there’s a lot happening inside (as in content) and outside (as in third-aprty improvements) browsers, but the main core is greatly dated even for last year’s needs.

I agree that mobile has many things to offer, but my picture comes from way ahead in the future (couple of years from now):

iPhone has OS X inside, and a reduced but cutting-edge processing power, which will increase twofold every 6 months. So in a 2-year span, we’ll have mobile devices capable of running today’s browsers. For me, whomever has the best browser now will have the best mobile browser in a year or two. Sure future’s unpredictability also grows exponentially, but this is not science fiction, and unless a breakout comes, browsers are still (and you agree with me) the best way to come up with cross-platform, zero install, ubiquitous software.

I love mobile, but I see it moving the same direction web was moving in 1996, so let me be scared and boggled by it. Though it might be just my perception that’s completely wrong.

]]> By: David Gómez-Rosado http://droom.zaacht.com/2007/01/the-new-finder-in-the-jungle-safari/comment-page-1/#comment-9 David Gómez-Rosado Mon, 29 Jan 2007 05:08:07 +0000 http://dannywho.frwrd.net/2007/01/20/the-new-finder-in-the-jungle-safari/#comment-9 Yes... I agree that browsers in general need an overdue overhaul. In the meantime I keep loading them with extra plug-ins to act as they should: On the Gecko engine front, Firefox can nicely give you contextual info on bookmarks with http://www.zotero.org/ and web infrastructure with https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/60/ As an example of "browsers as digital hub" that you mentioned above... there are good examples such as http://www.songbirdnest.com/... But it is too dedicated to just music. On Webcore engine, there is not much customization... You either switch to the quite informative http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/gallery/ or slightly customize Safari with http://www.inquisitorx.com/ or maybe other minor tweaks found at http://pimpmysafari.com To be honest I have WAY more faith on the mobile world... In terminals such upcoming iPhone, where the new size constrains will bring more efficient features to browsers (finger gestures is just the beginning) and new functionality because... Think about this: Did you realize that in a closed-sytem such as the iPhone the easiest way to introduce a third-party app is through web service? Exciting revolution ahead ;-) BTW... A long time ago I switched to http://spurl.net for cross-browser, cross-erminal bookmark management. I want to use http://beta.bookmarks.yahoo.com/ ... But they need to provide basic things like RSS, mobile access, etc. Yes… I agree that browsers in general need an overdue overhaul. In the meantime I keep loading them with extra plug-ins to act as they should: On the Gecko engine front, Firefox can nicely give you contextual info on bookmarks with http://www.zotero.org/ and web infrastructure with https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/60/

As an example of “browsers as digital hub” that you mentioned above… there are good examples such as http://www.songbirdnest.com/... But it is too dedicated to just music.

On Webcore engine, there is not much customization… You either switch to the quite informative http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/gallery/ or slightly customize Safari with http://www.inquisitorx.com/ or maybe other minor tweaks found at http://pimpmysafari.com

To be honest I have WAY more faith on the mobile world… In terminals such upcoming iPhone, where the new size constrains will bring more efficient features to browsers (finger gestures is just the beginning) and new functionality because… Think about this: Did you realize that in a closed-sytem such as the iPhone the easiest way to introduce a third-party app is through web service? Exciting revolution ahead ;-)

BTW… A long time ago I switched to http://spurl.net for cross-browser, cross-erminal bookmark management. I want to use http://beta.bookmarks.yahoo.com/ ... But they need to provide basic things like RSS, mobile access, etc.

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