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iCab does it even better
Authored by: Juneappal on Sep 02, '04 02:50:31AM

Yes. I know that iCab doesn't handle CSS2 - please don't remind me.

It does do some things very well, though, and this is one of them. I am posting this in hopes that some other developers will rip off their good ideas and put them in a browser that can display css.

In iCab, all search boxes have a contextual menu item that allows you to add them to the search pull down - one click and they are added. That's cool - like an even better version of AcidSearch. The other, fabulous feature is really cool. Any search field that you add to the box can have a letter associated with it. (mine include G for google, V for versiontracker, X for macosxhints, F for froogle, W for uswx, E for Ebay etc...) With all of those entered, I can type searches directly into the address box. If I type "G zebras" I get google results for zebras. "V zebras" gets versiontracker results for the same.

This is a super feature - especially for people who don't like to use the mouse - I can search 15 different search engines by remembering a single letter for each of them (which I assigned myself)

Developers - please steal this feature.

(Unless you are iCab developers. In that case .....FIX CSS! iCab has the best feature set and the worst rendering of all browsers)



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iCab does it even better
Authored by: pozytron on Sep 02, '04 09:14:30PM

Actually, you can set "shortcuts" in AcidSearch, which accomplishes the second task. If you create a new channel, it tries to create a channel based on the current page.

I might be a bit biased though.



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