Places:Firefox 2 User Interface Ideas
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Background
A common view of Bookmarks and History, with a back end that allows for flexible presentation and searching of the data in a way that makes it useful and accessible.
User Interface
Hierarchies are bad (difficult to create and maintain*), so default presentation deemphasizes them, but retains support for advanced and existing users.
* It is easy to create too many categories, or a highly nested structure that obscures the available categories, such that it is difficult to categorize links effectively and the amount of work required to do the task exceeds the benefit provided, given searching tools.
Showing Bookmarks
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| +----------------------+ Search: [ :^] v |
| | @ Visited Today | +------------------------------------------+ |
| | @ Visited This Week | | Name | Location | |
| | @ All History | |--------------------+---------------------+ |
| | @ Most Visited | | CNN.com http://www.cnn.com/ | |
| | @ Updated Today | | | |
| | @ Bookmarks Menu | | | |
| |#@#Bookmarks#Toolbar##| | | |
| | @ Subscriptions | | | |
| | @ Bonjour | | | |
| | @ Folder 1 | | | |
| | @ Folder 2 | | | |
| | @ Folder 3 | | | |
| | @ Folder 4 | | | |
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| +----------------------+ +------------------------------------------+ |
| ( + NF ) ( # ^ ) ( + NF ) |
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