Aza Raskin is the most visible member of the Mozilla Labs user interface and on his blog I came across this mockup with some incredible developments.
On the side. Our screens are wider than they are tall; vertical height is the scarce resource.
While this makes sense, it can seem like a bit of a waste of space. I’m sure I’d get used to it.
Applications. Much of our time on the web is now spent in web apps. We use them in long-lived session, and when we close the tabs that house them we know we’ll be coming back.
This is fucking genius and I want an extension for it now.
Grouped Tabs. In a world where we have more tabs than fingers and toes, we need a better way of keeping track of them then just a horizontal strip. Group-by-domain seems like a reasonable way to make scanning to find a tab easy. Are there other, better groupings?
I already use this feature in Tab Kit and group by origin of opening. I find it almost indispensable.
Work Spaces. We browse in tasklets: I’m researching a vacation, I’m working on Ubiquity development, I’m procrastination, etc. We should be able to easily take the sites we are interested in and drag-and-drop them into a workspace for safe keeping.
I love this idea but I’m curious as to the implementation. I kind of see it as an open ended Read it Later or if Instapaper if it had an extension.
The Mozilla Labs team has come up with inspiring project after inspiring project and has been very open with all their ideas. Firefox is by far the most prevalent application in my life and it’s intriguing to see the process they are going though with their ideas.
