2007-07-05

Web park prototype release (See more than 1 pages in one tab)

Current I am using a relative big screen(22' widescreen LCD) which is at 1680X1050. It's pretty good, but it's hard to utilize it when surfing web, most web pages will only take a small part of the whole screen, for example a maximized firefox browsing google will look like this:
I really don't like the blank area, so I develop a prototype for using the big screen more efficiently, currently it looks like this:

As you can see, two different pages are shown together(it's configurable, if you have a really big screen, you can show more than 2 pages). and click on google's search result will load the page on it's right, so to me, means a lot of tab operations become needless.

This project is currently in a very early stage, only have some basic functions, if you want to try it out, just visit http://yjpark.org/webpark, click the left-top button to install an extension for firefox (It's needed to add hook to user's click)

The second button is for login which is not implemented yet, the third can config how many pages you want to see in the window, the fourth can add a new page. on right side, each opened page will have a thumbnail(currently all same, will customize it in the future), you can click on it to switch(sub page will have no thumbnail, a sub page is the one which supposed to be on a new window, but with the extension, I can catch it and display it on right of the original page). the small buttons on top of each page can be used to maximize and close a page.


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