Incase you hadn't noticed, this project was conceived back in February of last year - 2008 - that's more than a year ago. This was before Firefox 3 had been released, a long time before anyone had even heard Google were working on a browser, a year before Safari 4, and Internet Explorer 8, and some of the elements incorporated into applications like Apple's iLife were only just becoming known and understood by the public.

I must take issue with several points you made as I believe some of them are invalid. I believe the purpose of the internet browser is constantly evolving and we are still no where near a perfect solution - we won't be for a while, if ever.

First, we are not putting a "file system" per-se inside the browser. We are using intelligent filters to realise that there is a certain media type on a given page and pulling a reference to that specific file into a user-specified category - like a video on YouTube in a user's Videos folder. This in my opinion is not "ZERO innovation". Browsers may be getting smarter at determining what you are intending to do when you type something in the search / URL field, but there is still no seamless solution for organising info and media that you browse on the internet. To go back to a video you watched yesterday still requires you to visit an impossible to recall URL and load a web page filled with superfluous content that you most likely are not interested in. The innovation in this respect is being able to see that you viewed a video yesterday, and to call it up on its own and watch it just as you would with a saved video on your hard-drive in iTunes.

The URL bar has received a lot of attention already from Google in Chrome - it's getting much more powerful now that it can be combined with online search. I think there are other areas that aren't being focussed on as much - that have been neglected.

Your comment about the internet being for everyone and therefore this browser being for everyone is nonsensical. Of course, the internet is used by hundreds of millions of people around the World. That doesn't mean, however, that our browser must be aimed at *every*one who uses the internet. This browser was conceived to deal with some of the tasks and problems we face while browsing the internet everyday. The concept appeals to us, and evidently from the response we have received, to a core group of others. I would prefer to aim to please a small group of consumers with a fantastic product, than to try and meet the needs of everyone and result in a half-assed, bloated browser.

Either way, the development of Latitude (the proposed brand name for Our Dream Browser) ceased this year as all parties involved have not been able to devote sufficient time to the project. We are working hard on our core business to focus our efforts on building some great things, rather than a multitude of average things.

/rant

James
GoSquared
http://www.gosquared.com/

Trying to find everything without touching the keyboard is BS. Simply because you say you developed this for managing MORE stuff and you go visual and click click everywhere.

You didn't even though about focus on hover function didn't you ?
This maybe be great for some people but Internet is not about few people. Please include more customization and less old fashioned BS like: MY pictures, MY videos, MY friends, MY MY
what about innovation guys ?

I'm thinking multiple hot spots and hot keys to expose elements when needed. Clean tabs only on mouseover - move higher and the addy bar pops up. Mouse high and left and the menu comes up.

some form of mouse gestures could substitute for navigation keys. hover on the right side and browser goes fwd (optional hot key or mouse click times x milliseconds to trigger). Same on left screen area navigates back. Dead center click once = stop, click twice = reload.

hotkey + keyword = load bookmark

alternate hover and click or key bottom pulls up bookmarks.....

This is what happens when you spoil yourself with a 32 inch monitor and then suffer on laptops and 15-19 inch screens. I need more web space screen real estate!!!

keep up the good work, I can't wait to see the results

I see two major problems with Taylor’s type-anywhere idea: interface transparency – users should be able to see what to do, so there needs to be a visible location field – and the fact that web sites tend to contain things that swall ow keyboard input, such as text fields and Flash applets, which means you need a visible control to provide an explicit way to break out of a keyboard-eating mode. (On top of that the use of www. as a trigger is, frankly, a bad idea, as more and more sites drop that useless appendix. Having to type http:// before each URL doesn’t appeal. However, treating foo.bar as a URL rather than a search term shouldn’t be a problem.)

I understand you could easily do this by using a service like Twittermail that allows you to send anything to an email address, and it'll post it to your Twitter account, but what about native Twitter integration?

Just a suggestion.

Keep up the great dev work, guys!