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An epiphany in browsing

Submitted by stro on Tue, 2003-02-18 18:14. Epiphany Web Browser

As many of you know, the former maintainer of Galeon, Marco Pesenti Gritti, recently started a new project based on the Galeon codebase known as Epiphany. The main goals of the Epiphany web browser are simplicity, usability, following the GNOME HIG, and GNOME integration. Epiphany is available from GNOME cvs in the "epiphany" module.

Ed Dumbill has written a nice short little review of Epiphany in its current developmental state, complete with a few screenshots, and some download links.

Also, here is another screenshot of Epiphany taken by James Willcox showing a patch that provides load feedback in the tabs and a bookmark context menu.

On another note, If any of you out there would be interested in contributing to the Epiphany project, Marco could use some help with the Epiphany website

Smart bookmarks and intuitiveness

Submitted by g2devi on Wed, 2003-02-19 09:49.

Epiphany looks like a good project and I hope it comes up with some great ideas, but I honestly don't think the current smart bookmark implemention is very intuitive. It tries to mix up the concept of bookmarks (i.e. take me to this specific link) with smart bookmarks (i.e. use the information on this line to find other information). Looking at the interface, I'm not sure what selecting the greyed "Google" will do. Will it take me to google? Will it put send this line to the "Google" smart bookmark? Will it bring up a dialog box that allows me to enter google parameters?

I personally prefer the Phoenix approach to smart bookmarks:

http://www.winload.de/bilder/screenshots/17524/phoenixbrowser.gif

http://cheeaun.clook.net/phoenix/screenshots/px04.png

It saves screen real estate, it's intuitive, and it can easily handle over ten smart bookmarks.

However the Epiphany interface doesn't need drastic changes if it wants to be more intuitive. All that's needed is that the "smart bookmark" line has to be self-describing. So, for instance, this toolbar:

http://writetheweb.com/Members/edd/Articles/images/ephy-3.png

could list the smart bookmarks as:

. [Send To] Chump

. [Send To] Debian bugs

. [Send To] Debian packages

. [Send To] Google

Where "[Send To]" is an icon that indicates that this line is a smart bookmark. These bookmark lines are visually different than the others and they actually tell the user what to expect when you select them.

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