Comments on: Browsing the Web With a Tree http://www.jacobsheehy.com/technology/browsing-the-web-with-a-tree/ Jacob's thoughts on technology, politics, and daily life. Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:11:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Back and Forward Buttons Are a Bad Paradigm | Networking for Networkers http://www.jacobsheehy.com/technology/browsing-the-web-with-a-tree/#comment-62 Back and Forward Buttons Are a Bad Paradigm | Networking for Networkers Thu, 22 May 2008 22:04:15 +0000 http://www.jacobsheehy.com/technology/browsing-the-web-with-a-tree/#comment-62 [...] post makes an excellent point, and doesn’t even take into account things like dynamic Ajax pages [...] […] post makes an excellent point, and doesn’t even take into account things like dynamic Ajax pages […]

]]> By: bise http://www.jacobsheehy.com/technology/browsing-the-web-with-a-tree/#comment-61 bise Thu, 15 May 2008 21:48:31 +0000 http://www.jacobsheehy.com/technology/browsing-the-web-with-a-tree/#comment-61 It is the same with the firefox history, it will also show D C B A. But the back button won't do this way, So back means going back the branches to the place you are coming from: D C A. History shows you all place you have been. So the solution would be to open the history in the sidebar and change the view to order by last visited. It is the same with the firefox history, it will also show D C B A. But the back button won’t do this way, So back means going back the branches to the place you are coming from: D C A. History shows you all place you have been. So the solution would be to open the history in the sidebar and change the view to order by last visited.

]]> By: Andrew http://www.jacobsheehy.com/technology/browsing-the-web-with-a-tree/#comment-60 Andrew Thu, 15 May 2008 14:23:46 +0000 http://www.jacobsheehy.com/technology/browsing-the-web-with-a-tree/#comment-60 Safari's history will show A B C D. It's still a list, but it does show all the pages you've visited in chronological order. Safari’s history will show A B C D. It’s still a list, but it does show all the pages you’ve visited in chronological order.

]]> By: DavidM http://www.jacobsheehy.com/technology/browsing-the-web-with-a-tree/#comment-59 DavidM Tue, 13 May 2008 16:45:07 +0000 http://www.jacobsheehy.com/technology/browsing-the-web-with-a-tree/#comment-59 Ah yes, the beloved and hated Web Explorer! As the commenter above mentions, it had a tree based history that did exactly this. It was freakin' awesome! You could have the display sort the tree nodes in any one of several ways (depth first vs. breadth first to CS folk), and it had a number of different options for how to log them, too. Now do understand that in every other way that browser sucked, but that is a feature I've always missed! Perhaps a firefox plugin would be good! Ah yes, the beloved and hated Web Explorer! As the commenter above mentions, it had a tree based history that did exactly this. It was freakin’ awesome! You could have the display sort the tree nodes in any one of several ways (depth first vs. breadth first to CS folk), and it had a number of different options for how to log them, too.

Now do understand that in every other way that browser sucked, but that is a feature I’ve always missed! Perhaps a firefox plugin would be good!

]]> By: Vamsee http://www.jacobsheehy.com/technology/browsing-the-web-with-a-tree/#comment-58 Vamsee Tue, 13 May 2008 15:28:25 +0000 http://www.jacobsheehy.com/technology/browsing-the-web-with-a-tree/#comment-58 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890 Thats why I like firefox. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890

Thats why I like firefox.

]]> By: Mike http://www.jacobsheehy.com/technology/browsing-the-web-with-a-tree/#comment-56 Mike Tue, 13 May 2008 03:31:05 +0000 http://www.jacobsheehy.com/technology/browsing-the-web-with-a-tree/#comment-56 This is annoying. It'd save me untold RAM if I didn't open every new link in a new tab to avoid losing history. Of course, we wouldn't want to confuse the LCD: a tree can't be browsed using only forward and back buttons. I'm still amazed that 99% of people don't even get that they can access deep history by clicking the drop down menus next to the forward/back buttons rather than clicking through sequentially. Try explaining parent and child nodes and the difference between the root and a leaf. This is annoying. It’d save me untold RAM if I didn’t open every new link in a new tab to avoid losing history.

Of course, we wouldn’t want to confuse the LCD: a tree can’t be browsed using only forward and back buttons. I’m still amazed that 99% of people don’t even get that they can access deep history by clicking the drop down menus next to the forward/back buttons rather than clicking through sequentially. Try explaining parent and child nodes and the difference between the root and a leaf.

]]> By: jose http://www.jacobsheehy.com/technology/browsing-the-web-with-a-tree/#comment-55 jose Tue, 13 May 2008 03:05:03 +0000 http://www.jacobsheehy.com/technology/browsing-the-web-with-a-tree/#comment-55 i wound up sniffing my own traffic to build these graphs. http://monkey.org/~jose/software/http-graph/ i wound up sniffing my own traffic to build these graphs.

http://monkey.org/~jose/software/http-graph/

]]> By: Erik Hinzpeter » Browser history as a tree http://www.jacobsheehy.com/technology/browsing-the-web-with-a-tree/#comment-54 Erik Hinzpeter » Browser history as a tree Tue, 13 May 2008 02:53:31 +0000 http://www.jacobsheehy.com/technology/browsing-the-web-with-a-tree/#comment-54 [...] been meaning to do something along these lines for ages.. still strikes me as an excellent Firefox plug-in. Trying to track down a page in a [...] […] been meaning to do something along these lines for ages.. still strikes me as an excellent Firefox plug-in. Trying to track down a page in a […]

]]> By: admin http://www.jacobsheehy.com/technology/browsing-the-web-with-a-tree/#comment-53 admin Tue, 13 May 2008 02:32:50 +0000 http://www.jacobsheehy.com/technology/browsing-the-web-with-a-tree/#comment-53 bpgergo: That specific picture is actually from my travels around Europe a few years ago. Originally, I had a blog that served mostly as a travel blog (<a href="http://jacob.sheehy.ca" rel="nofollow">http://jacob.sheehy.ca</a>) and so the picture made sense with the theme. Though I suppose it's a bit off topic now that I write mostly about technology, I could never decide on another header style that I actually liked. The Hungarian parliament building is pretty much the coolest place ever, so it stuck with me. bpgergo: That specific picture is actually from my travels around Europe a few years ago. Originally, I had a blog that served mostly as a travel blog (http://jacob.sheehy.ca) and so the picture made sense with the theme. Though I suppose it’s a bit off topic now that I write mostly about technology, I could never decide on another header style that I actually liked. The Hungarian parliament building is pretty much the coolest place ever, so it stuck with me.

]]> By: bpgergo http://www.jacobsheehy.com/technology/browsing-the-web-with-a-tree/#comment-52 bpgergo Tue, 13 May 2008 02:27:58 +0000 http://www.jacobsheehy.com/technology/browsing-the-web-with-a-tree/#comment-52 Sorry, this is off: I find the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Parliament_Building" title="Hungarian Parliament Building" rel="nofollow"> to be sort of funny. And I am very curious what was the idea behind choosing it as a background image for the title of your blog? on this post: I've been surfin the web since 95, (Netscape was the browser back than) and I vaugly remember when I first realized this annoying behavior of the back button. Maybe this is why I barely use the back buttion? :) What I've been using instead was open in new window/tab and history. Sorry, this is off:
I find the to be sort of funny.
And I am very curious what was the idea behind choosing it as a background image for the title of your blog?

on this post:
I’ve been surfin the web since 95, (Netscape was the browser back than) and I vaugly remember when I first realized this annoying behavior of the back button. Maybe this is why I barely use the back buttion? :)
What I’ve been using instead was open in new window/tab and history.

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