OmniWeb 5b5, Part 1
April 17th, 2004
- Window layering is wonky - if I switch out of OmniWeb while the Bookmarks, Downloads, Error Log, Source Editor, or Network Activity windows are the frontmost and switch back, the first browser window comes to the front.
- Address bar click/drag-through has been (intentionally?) disabled. It’s very nice to be able to grab an address from a browser window’s bar and drop it into another window without having to bring the browser window to the foreground or use the Command key.
- Source Selection
- Highlight some page text.
- From the View menu, select the View in Source Editor command (also available in the contextual menu). It would be nice if the menu command name could dynamically change to View Selection Source (in both the View and contextual menus), but it’s not a huge deal.
- Watch as the window containing the page source automatically zooms to the beginning of the text you highlighted before you selected View Source.
- Control/right-clicking on an open toolbar space should summon the same options as seen in the Finder and NetNewsWire.
- The Bookmarks window should retain its state between openings. It currently returns to the “Personal Bookmarks” section every time.
- There is a bug with Notes text field that requires that the field be selected (with a click) twice in order to allow input.
- Another one to steal from Mozilla: clicking on the lock icon that appears for https connections could display the site’s certificate and connection encryption information.
- Is anyone else running into the following error when trying to load pages after about a day or two of continuous OmniWeb use?
Mozilla’s implementation of a similar feature is pretty good, but it doesn’t display the selected text in the context of the entire page, showing only the containing block element. Showing the selected text with syntax coloring within the page source would be an improvement on Mozilla’s method. Being able to reveal links to images in the page source could also be handy.
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