Thursday, 2 May 2002
Scoop's new dynamic modes for comment reading let you expand messages in place, just like a Radio outline which links to other outlines. This lets you explore a discussion asynchronously: while you wait for the message(s) you've requested to download, you can read the rest of the discussion in the page you're already on, instead of seeing partial Web pages load and losing your place in the new page. In Mozilla, I use tabbed browsing in very much the same way, Command-clicking links to load pages in new tabs while reading the page in the frontmost tab. Scoop's version is very nicely implemented, and extremely responsive. It's really sad that it's taken us this long to get Web browsers that will handle this kind of basic interface feature reasonably, though.
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