In M Linden's recent blog post he said...
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We’ve made great progress and will be working with an award-winning interactive design firm to help us complete the reinvention and bring it to life. Yes, we are creating a viewer that is new user friendly!
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I have read some posts around the blogs and etc.. suggesting that he is talking about the Vectorform
Landmarks and Navigation Project. So I figured I'd grab the source and compile it and see whats up. As it turns out... not a whole lot is up.
But in any case I thought I might as well post a screenshot of something that could be coming to a viewer near you.
In the menu there is now a landmarks menu. that pretty much a standard browser bookmark menu.
In the address bar (from left to right)
Half circle button - Collapses the menu to get it out of your way.
Back button - TP you to your last location
Forward button - TP you to the location you were at when you hit the back button
Downward pointing triangle - Seems to be a history button. drops down a list of where you have been.
Home button - send you to your home location
The "i" in the circle - Opens the about land box
The address bar itself - where you type the SURLS
triangle - address bar history
the person with an arrow icon - basically a go button, sends you to the address in the bar.
Below the bar is the new preferences dealing with the address bar.
All in all I like it, but I don't think this is what M was talking about. it's nice but no great leap in making the viewer better for new people.
Well that's my 2 linden cents.
