Tuesday 02/03/04
The Omni Group released OmniWeb 5.0b1 yesterday. I'd tell you what all is cool about this browser, but John Gruber has already posted a detailed first look over at Daring Fireball.
Since Gruber didn't say it, I will note that the obvious antecedent for OmniWeb's site preferences is Internet Explorer's Security Zones feature, although basically all you can do with Security Zones is add sites to one zone or another, a process requiring a lot of clicking and typing, and furthermore, only security-related preferences are affected. (Still, in my IE-using days, it sure was nice to be able to turn off JavaScript or plug-ins for some sites while leaving them on for others.) OmniWeb's site preferences are obviously far more flexible and therefore way cooler.
I suggested to Omni that they offer the user the opportunity to adjust the "aspect ratio" (basically reducing the height) of thumbnails in the tab drawer. I'd settle for just being able to get 16:9 "letterbox" thumbnails; you could sure stack a lot more of them in the drawer.
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