Project "Surf"
The other day, I created some mockups for the perfect Mac OS X web browser (at least from my perspective) and I’d thought I’d share my interesting, though slightly shaky results.
Design is far from perfect and it all needs cleaning up if it were to ever become ‘real’, but as this is just an idea at present, there are no worries.
The Sketches
I first sketched some ideas down.
Sketch of the main window
Sketch of the views functionality
Sketch of the preferences and menu areas
The Mockups
Poorly executed mockups of what it may look like (or similar to) as an application. This would need to go through further design development, research and certainly require cleaning up if the application were ever to be made.
Mockup of the main window
Mockup of the grid view
Technical Notes
- WebKit (with support for nightly builds etc)
- Pop-up blocking
- Private Mode
- Google Gears support
- Bookmark Shelf (optional shelf to the left, aimed at web applications)
- Web-App saving (saved as an SSB/window without location & navigation controls)
- Processing for each tab (each tab has its own process, making the browser more stable)
- Unified Location Bar (URL’s and searching in the same bar)
- Views (view at Grid, Slide or Preview tabs whilst browsing)
- Growl notifications (for downloads, tabs/processes, software updates and more)
- Fullscreen/Kiosk
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