Monkeynotions

So lately, Cooliris released a free Mozilla plugin that will allow users to see what is behind links. Browster is another company that also does this. There has been some interesting comments on the techcrunch blog about these browser enhancements, one of them being the following:

Comment by Sam Davyson — April 12, 2006 @ 4:40 am

What is the big deal with this? Why would I want to see a preview of a page (by loading the page) instead of simply loading the page?! It is utter madness.

Why hover when you can click?

I am one of those people who do not like to click. Why? I do not like loosing my context, which I feel is so easy to do on the internet. That is why the *back* button is used the most frequently as it helps users gain context and navigate back to where they have been. This is particularly true in 2003 when Google was popular. I always had to click on the link and hit the back button or open up in a new window. Usually the linktext is representative of the object behind it, and what better way to represent an object than the object itself?? We can use metadata all we want, but the best description or representation is the real mc coy. For me I wanted my searching experience to be as easy as flipping through pages of a book. That is how I can easily skim a book. I made a prototype in 2003 that was web-based you didnt’ have to download. This means though that the performance is slow, it’s ugly, testy, and only works in IE. Check it out! More info about it here.

I applaud the folks at Browster and Cooliris for making my browser experience as easy as flipping through pages of a book. Now if they could just fix things like perceived performance when loading a page, and inerrant rollovers are annoying =) I had the same problems =)

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