innovative browsers
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February 17th, 2024
- innovative browsers — another one whose entire premise is built around being MORE distracting / multitasky rather than less
- > One window. Many workspaces. All your tabs.
January 18th, 2024
- (not a full thread but it could be)
January 2nd, 2024
- the idea of "web browser" is woefully out of date
- maybe what I make will also get called a browser, like we call smartphones "phones"
- but I want to take seriously the idea of making something new in kind, and not limit it by conceiving of it as a "browser" first and foremost
- to a large extent I am orienting to building an operating system, I just don't want to do kernel stuff (at this phase anyway) and the internet is a nice modular abstraction layer already, where the engine is very cross-platform etc
- random desiderata
- intentionality
- for the system to have a sense of "what am I doing right now?" that affects both the structure and the style of the UI
- if you go to do a small thing, it hides all the other stuff in various ways
- once complete a thing, it gives space between you and seeing all the other stuff you have open
- many things that affect the way that open tabs can be used as implicit "tasks"
- arc handles this in some creative ways, with default archive (but their archive is shit)
- in a sense I want the fundamental unit to be the intention, and then tabs and pages and apps are tools in service of the intention
- and intentions here could include sort of exploratory fuck-around intentions
- extensions
- more powers, of various kinds
- ability to remove sites