Mozilla feature

[george at library.caltech.edu]

Perhaps the niftiest new wrinkle in the Mozilla 1.2 (a&b)
<http://www.mozilla.org/releases/> is the Type Ahead Find feature.
Different from the traditional keyboard shortcut Find function long common
in web browsers, this feature only scans linked text.  While viewing a
webpage simply start typing the text of a link, the link will be
highlighted, then press [Enter] to activate the link.

Doesn't seem like a very big deal, does it.  Now picture yourself with a
notebook or laptop, trying to use a touchpad or, perhaps the worst I/O
device ever invented, a thumbstick embedded amongst the keys.  Suddenly this
feature starts looking like one of the first major browser interface
breakthroughs of the 21st century.  YMMV.

George S. Porter
Sherman Fairchild Library of Engineering & Applied Science
Caltech, 1-43
Pasadena, CA  91125-4300
Telephone (626) 395-3409 Fax (626) 431-2681