I sure wish I had nine lives....

"I sure wish I had nine lives so I had time to help Andy add cool features to Uzilla." - Joe Hewitt

Screen capture functionality is coming soon to Mozilla, via sponsorship by Uzilla.  Hewitt implemented an interface within DOM Inspector over a year ago.  While this functionality may move out of DOMi in the future,  I'm betting that visual previews of pages will become indispensible.

PeteJC will be polishing off screen capture for Windows and looking to Mac and Linux.  Bugs: windows,  linux, and macintosh.|||
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Mapping Trees to Rooms

Work from HP on Automatically Designed 3-D Environments for Intuitive Browsing and Discovery maps tree structures onto large art-gallery like rooms.  Nifty idea, but I'm skeptical of 3d as a interaction technique for browsing.  The ability to show focus and context makes it a good choice for selection and high level navigation.
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Compose UI Design

An active discussion at MZine discusses this, among other, UI changes to Thunderbird, the stand-alone Mozilla Mail client:


I've always kind of admired the Netscape "to" fields if for no other reason than innovativeness. 

Advantages of the original design:

• easier to move a recipient from cc to to
• easier to edit an individual user
• maintains Netscape heritage
• memorable and distinct UI
• features icon for recipient categorization
• now its person vs mailing list?
• could be extended to show person roles
• ala InboxBuddy
  

Disadvantages

• takes up more space
• harder to add multiple of the same type ?
• default is to I think, does it inherit last selection

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