Re: roadmap discussion

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Bryan Clark wrote:

> Here is the list I had for Epiphany roadmap items (sorry this is late).

Better late then never eh? ;-)

> * Online / Offline / Changing mode

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158903 is also about 
online/offline mode.

> can take advantage of.  We need to show the states of Online/ Offline/
> Changing to explain [1] why the web isn't working or is taking a long
> time.

Perhaps we can ditch the spinner then, finally!

> 	Sure we do this, but firefox has the discoverability advantage that we
> need.  On the first block we need to show people that we can provide
> popup blocking and what it looks like when they are blocked from a site.

I see a catch-22 here. I don't think we want to have popup blocking 
enabled by default. Consequently, the first block cannot happen before 
one consciously enabled the blocker, after which showing people that we 
have it is quite redundant.

Of course we could show a notification at the first popup occurence, but 
chances are users will ignore it. Generally users click away anything 
that disturbs their workflow, without reading.

> 	We should be able to do this almost automatically.  I've seen Firefox

With the new GNOME zeroconf support, shouldn't we be able to have 
some collaborative bookmarks support on the local network and/or 
implement support for existing collaborative bookmarks projects?

> 	Another on the list of Firefox cherry picking.  Most of the arguments

Adam had a half-working extension that does ad blocking. Adam?

> for Firefox is the "It has so many more features", but I argue that most
> of those features are actually crap.  F has a few features that have
> made it to the top and many people use, Epiphany should take those
> features and integrate them in smarter way.

Totally agree! :)

regards,

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