Humane Interfaces

Post by **Jonathan** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 6:57 pm

I was reading the /. article on Raskin's proposed HCI and fiddling with the demo when something the demo said about persistence struck me as a very good idea.

I went a-Googling and found this Firefox extension:

Session Saver 0.2.1.026

You should immediately edit the Preferences in Tools to enable Save session-copy on shutdown if you install this extension.

I use the Bookmark all tabs in folder feature in order to get static "sessions", but the Session Saver lets me continue my surfing sessions even if I get interrupted.

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 8:38 pm

I've been using this extension a while, but it is a bit buggy if you have a lot of tabs open. I agree that the only option that should be checked is save session on shutdown to help avoid the bugginess.

By bugginess, I mean that it will hang firefox while it tries to load all of the tabs you had open in a seesion. Since it tries to load everything at once, and waits for every page to load, some pages will time out and hang it. Even hitting reload yourself won't unhang it in the end.

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 8:40 pm

I totally think that video games, particularly portable/handheld systems need the ability to suspend and pickup again on power-on.

Peijen · Post by **Peijen** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 9:04 pm

quantus wrote:I totally think that video games, particularly portable/handheld systems need the ability to suspend and pickup again on power-on.

yes! we don't want save points, we want save states.

Jason · Post by **Jason** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 10:37 pm

Does anyone know how to refresh just one pane in firefox? I liked that feature in IE since it would allow me to recheck my RSS feeds without changing the current feed I was looking at. Firefox refreshes the whole page.

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 12:22 am

Jason wrote:Does anyone know how to refresh just one pane in firefox? I liked that feature in IE since it would allow me to recheck my RSS feeds without changing the current feed I was looking at. Firefox refreshes the whole page.

Yes, write your own extension

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 3:30 am

quantus wrote:I totally think that video games, particularly portable/handheld systems need the ability to suspend and pickup again on power-on.

The GBA does this already doesn't it? Or do you mean something different?

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 4:54 am

Alan wrote:
quantus wrote:I totally think that video games, particularly portable/handheld systems need the ability to suspend and pickup again on power-on.
The GBA does this already doesn't it? Or do you mean something different?

I don't own a GBA, so I wouldn't know.

Post by **Jonathan** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 2:52 pm

I have a GBA. Most GBA games support the Suspend mode, usually through the Pause menu. This is very similar to Windows' Stand By. It continues to drain the battery, so you can't leave it in Suspend indefinitely. Without a battery meter, I can't tell you how long you can leave it in Suspend because I am reluctant to lose my game state.

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 2:14 am

Dwindlehop wrote:I have a GBA. Most GBA games support the Suspend mode, usually through the Pause menu. This is very similar to Windows' Stand By. It continues to drain the battery, so you can't leave it in Suspend indefinitely. Without a battery meter, I can't tell you how long you can leave it in Suspend because I am reluctant to lose my game state.

Exactly why they should put a some flash into the damn thing and dump the memory and processor state to the flash.

Post by **Jonathan** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:18 pm

Jason wrote:Does anyone know how to refresh just one pane in firefox? I liked that feature in IE since it would allow me to recheck my RSS feeds without changing the current feed I was looking at. Firefox refreshes the whole page.

brainstorm: can you use the "open in sidebar" feature to get what you want? Or the Live Bookmark feature?