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Suggestions: - Autofocus the url bar, if this is possible. Make the search field the first tab field (it's currently the second). - Do a live fuzzy filtering
by benaiah 13y ago
Suggestions:
- Autofocus the url bar, if this is possible. Make the search field the first tab field (it's currently the second).
- Do a live fuzzy filtering of my webapps, not a submit-based search. This might work better if you had the list of results in a dropdown from the search box (think how Sublime shows its command pallette. If you don't know what that is, see the third animation at http://www.sublimetext.com/ http://www.sublimetext.com/), instead of taking over the main body of the page.
- If I press Enter from the search box, open the top result that's currently showing.
These three changes allow for the workflow Ctrl-T, Tab if necessary, type fuzzy search for app name, press enter. Otherwise it's faster just to use the URL bar.
- You should show the URL of the shortcuts when editing the list of shortcuts, and preferably giving an option to turn on the domain on the main view.
EDIT:
- I would suggest making all my currently selected apps stored in localStorage, and using appCache for the page, if you're not already. If you want people to use this heavily, it'll need to load fast. The directory you can just load from a server, but I shouldn't have to wait for a response if I'm on a bad connection and I want to open a web app.
- Is there a way to load in your data without redirecting the New Tab page? Currently, the way you have it set up breaks the Ctrl-T, type-url flow that I use constantly, and I imagine many other people do too. I know it used to be possible to take over the new tab page without changing the url - did the update break this?
EDIT: changed the first suggestion.
- olegp 13y agoAwesome suggestions! Adding them to our backlog as we speak. If it's not too much trouble, could you cross post them to http://starthq.uservoice.com http://starthq.uservoice.com so others can vote and comment. Also that way you'll get notified when we roll the updates out. We are already using localStorage. Opted out of using AppCache after having it on for a while due to Firefox having a buggy implementation which made it impossible to invalidate the cache at times. The last point is worrying, since it works for me. This may indeed be a regressioon caused by the Chrome update. Will investigate and be in touch.
- benaiah 13y agoThanks for the response. I was half-expecting you were using localStorage, and I sympathize with your AppCache trouble. It's a pain when it does work, let alone when it doesn't. One other idea I had, which I'm not sure if you guys are working on, is making the images able to autoupdate so you could have live-tile-like functionality (not necessarily the design, just the live info). Before the update, I used Currently, which gave me weather and time on the new tab page, which I really liked. I'll see about posting that and my previous suggestions to uservoice.
- olegp 13y agoWe don't want to go too far down the Windows livze tiles path yet, but it would make sense further down the line. Funnily enough, we made it possible to pin the site on Windows 8, so you can have it as a tile itself: http://www.iegallery.com/PinnedSites/Details/16114 http://www.iegallery.com/PinnedSites/Details/16114