April 14, 2003

Forward, fast

The new ver­sion of Opera comes with an inter­est­ing new fea­ture: fast for­ward­ing.

The browser can detect link-​next ele­ments and allow users to move for­ward through a site from the brower’s for­ward button.

While many people visit news sites look­ing for spe­cific infor­ma­tion, I think using some­thing like this new fea­ture could make news sites more browseable.

Adrian Holo­vaty has talked about the code that makes this pos­si­ble, and says Mozilla/Netscape can do some­thing sim­i­lar in their sidebars.

I really like the idea of having this type of browseabil­ity in the main tool­bar as well — it helps out those like me with small mon­i­tors who can’t afford the screen real estate of the Mozilla sidebar.

Filed under: Web design

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