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› January 19, 2003
Best feature of Safari
An imaginary person did not ask me: "Nathan, what is your favorite new feature of that Apple browser they call Safari?". To which, I did not answer: "The status bar. It tells me in plain english what to expect from any link in terms of it's destination (new window, new window behind current window, etc.) It's changed my enjoyment of browsing the web by a signifiant factor". To which the imaginary person said "What are you talking about? First of all, I don't exist, second...". To which I interrupted:
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1. January 19, 2003 01:39 PM
2. January 19, 2003 02:14 PM
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Simon Willison Posted…
I've been wanting a "this link will open in a new window" feature in Mozilla for ages - there's a bug about it but the discussion went on for ages without anyone ever really deciding on anything. The status bar would seem to be the ideal place for that kind of (very useful) information.