[DUG] Problem redeeming Delphi XE BOGO free product

[John Bird]

?[Browsers contd]

10 seconds to page loaded is impressive when there are 269 tabs open in 20 
groups, current group has 20+ tabs so all of those are pretty much loaded 
too - so yes that is fast.   1 or 2 tabs is a lot faster again.

lots of tabs is useful if the browser handles it effortlessly, rather than 
bookmarking and closing them I just leave them open.    Particularly useful 
for tabs I don't want to bookmark or keep long-term, and will only refer to 
for a day or so.  Think of it as an alternative to bookmarks and opening 
bookmarks.

Firefox Panorama allows one to organise open tabs into different groups, and 
drag and drop them from one group to another.  The browser is pretty much 
only dealing with the one current group of tabs at once (others are a 
keystroke or two away).   Its like the multiple desktops available in linux, 
or MacOS.

This is Off-topic - but relevant to Delphi in that these are new paradigms 
about how to handle more objects than fit in a menu or dropdown list.  The 
Vista/Windows 7 way is to make a terrific search box.  The Delphi XE IDE 
(IDE insight) and Windows Live Mail filtering does the same idea.   The MS 
Office way is to introduce the ribbon menus to find options more easily.

In Delphi applications the most usual approach is to filter a large dataset 
in a grid.

The Firefox Panorama is quite a new paradigm - organise groups visually on 
screen yourself by spatial placement - the user chooses the size  and 
placement.  Way more intuitive than folders.   Its an outstanding design 
IMHO.  There are some issues with it, (mainly speed but largely cured with 
hardware/graphics acceleration) but its as new an idea as the Ribbon in 
Office, or multi-touch.   But worth checking out as such a design is likely 
to be used and copied in lots of other software in future.

John

Is 10 secs supposed to be impressive ?

Chrome+ (note: NOT Google Chrome) 1.5.0 - start and load my iGoogle home
page is < 4 secs on my system (and that includes all widgets - TradeMe,
Stuff, BBC F1 News, Stack Overflow, Delphi Feeds) having completed their
initial update).



>> handle 200+ tabs using same memory as most other browsers
>> with 10-20 tabs.

>Whoop-de-doo...

>Show me a *USER* that can [productively] handle 10-20 tabs and I'd be
>surprised.  :)

>200+ tabs... useful for feature list bragging rights, but beyond that... ?

Thats a bit like saying who would ever need more than 10 files in a folder 
so why cater for it?

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