Comments on: Mozilla creates the concept cars of the Web

By: theproductguy

theproductguy — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:07:57 +0000

This is a very awesome imagining of the next generation of interacting with the web/Internet. Definitely going to include this as part of my Weekend Reading…

http://tpgblog.com/2008/08/08/the-product-guys-weekend-reading-august-8-2008/

Jeremy Horn
The Product Guy
http://tpgblog.com

By: JeromeLapointe

JeromeLapointe — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:38:44 +0000

So you replaced the cursor with a hand…. selecting now becomes dragging…
You also scrapped context menus in favor or a round version with unlabeled dots…

Like most concept cars… this one will not see the light of the factory lamps.

By: Jeria

Jeria — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:27:41 +0000

I bet 50 € on that IE 11 will still not have any SVG or DOM Level 2 Events support.

Feel free to contact me then to get the money.

;)

By: emehrkay

emehrkay — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:58:34 +0000

Imagine the IE 11 implementation of this. *shudders*

By: narphorium

narphorium — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:08:48 +0000

The HID in the video is the Novint Falcon 3D haptic mouse pictured here.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/touchy-controller/touchy-novint-falcon-finally-coming-in-june-256868.php

By: FrankThuerigen

FrankThuerigen — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:04:28 +0000

…which will take decades to make a stand in COTS hardware, right?

By: DiscoNova

DiscoNova — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:56:47 +0000

I might be stating the obvious, but perhaps people missed it on the video, but the HID used is not a traditional mouse, but appears to be a device that looks like it has been specifically designed to navigate the “threeish dimensional” user interface.

By: ragjunk

ragjunk — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:34:50 +0000

A touchscreen interface (imagine a 21″ iPhone) would make this really futuristic. Otherwise, it maybe harder to use as Frank indicated.

By: FrankThuerigen

FrankThuerigen — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:10:07 +0000

Visiting the site will reveal a mega “back” button concept … so forget that comment.

By: FrankThuerigen

FrankThuerigen — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:56:43 +0000

From an ergonomic point of view, …

- since we still live in a world where the mouse acts as an interface to a website, this would probably be a hard interface. I really hope it is gesture-driven otherwise you will have to sway your pointer from the extreme left to the extreme right side of the screen. Other than that the eye will get tired pretty soon.

- The dimensions of the proposed datacube cannot be rotated or made invisible to hide unnecessary information

- “Semantic Net” has its shortcomings in real world use.

@V1: “I dont see how extensive file clutter can be the future of the web..”
- massive clutter already is PRESENT DAY status. All indicators say it will become worse. A browser that filters data, groups data and can learn from the user behaviour is a nice concept IMHO.

Interesting stuff. BTW where is the “back” button? Some people will get lost without it :-)

By: halski103

halski103 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:52:42 +0000

Cool.
Year 2021, Intel Core 32xDuo :)
Base on Gecko 991.55.77 :)

It looks like old SF movie

cpu HAL 9000: PLS ENTER NAME
human: David Bowman

ps. 2001: A Space Odyssey
LOL

By: V1

V1 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:27:18 +0000

2 words

MASSIVE CLUTTER

god, seeing all those file just makes me want to shut down my laptop..
I really hate clutter, i only have 2 icons on my desktop.

I dont see how extensive file clutter can be the future of the web..