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VENDOR: REQUEST: Possible Feature for NetExtra
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Porter)
Fri Mar 14 07:59:04 1997
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 14 Mar 1997 09:45:38 GMT
From: innoval@ibm.net (Dan Porter)
Reply-To: innoval@ibm.net
Reply-to: innoval@ibm.net
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Request for Information, Ideas, Comments
According to a story in the Wall Street Journal ("At Thousands of Web Sites,
Time Stands Still", Tuesday, March 11, 1997), nearly five million of thirty
million web pages indexed by AltaVista have not been updated since early 1996.
We all know the frustration of reading web pages and not knowing how old the
information is. There are techniques that can be used to often determine the
age of a page (for instance with Netscape you can load document info) but these
are manual procedures, they are slow, and they break up the rhythm of clicking
from one link to another.
We are proposing to add a new feature to NetExtra for OS/2 (and WebWilly for
Windows 95/NT) that would display a small window on your screen that shows the
creation or last-updated date of each document at the time that it is
downloaded into your browser. It would be a small window, not unlike digital
clock windows, and can be located where you want on the screen. Settings might
include: enable always, enable if date is older than ..., blink date if date
is older than ..., colors, etc.
Is this a good idea? What features would you add? Should the date be included
in the jump list, history logs, bookmarks, nickname lists, etc? We would like
to hear from you. If we receive enough encouragement, we will add the feature.
If implemented, it would be a no-charge feature that customers will be able to
download.
Please let us know what you think. Send a note to Marianne Roderus, InnoVal
Customer Support, at innoval@ibm.net.
Thank you for your support.
Dan Porter, President
InnoVal Systems Solutions, Inc.
innoval@ibm.net
http://www.innoval.com
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