Comments on: Too much of a good thing http://blog.surfulater.com/2009/04/06/too-much-of-a-good-thing/ Surfulater, the journey continues... Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:22:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jim McGowan http://blog.surfulater.com/2009/04/06/too-much-of-a-good-thing/#comment-85068 Jim McGowan Sat, 18 Apr 2009 05:01:22 +0000 http://blog.surfulater.com/2009/04/06/too-much-of-a-good-thing/#comment-85068 Actually, I could see this being a reasonable feature but only in certain situations. If I have a number of web pages that I know I want to capture but I initially found them when Surfulater wasn't available to me - like maybe on another computer - I could have a list of the specific pages and have Firefox open them all in separate tabs at once. Surfulater could them grab them all and I could end my browsing session quickly. However if this would require a significant effort at all - and I suspect strongly that it would indeed - then the value to all users would not be there. Too big of a change to accommodate too few users IMO. But I did want to mention the circumstances where this would actually be a helpful feature, since at first blush it appears to be completely useless. :) Jim Actually, I could see this being a reasonable feature but only in certain situations. If I have a number of web pages that I know I want to capture but I initially found them when Surfulater wasn’t available to me – like maybe on another computer – I could have a list of the specific pages and have Firefox open them all in separate tabs at once. Surfulater could them grab them all and I could end my browsing session quickly.

However if this would require a significant effort at all – and I suspect strongly that it would indeed – then the value to all users would not be there. Too big of a change to accommodate too few users IMO. But I did want to mention the circumstances where this would actually be a helpful feature, since at first blush it appears to be completely useless. :)

Jim

]]> By: My Cantina » Too much of a good thing - the rebuttal http://blog.surfulater.com/2009/04/06/too-much-of-a-good-thing/#comment-84039 My Cantina » Too much of a good thing - the rebuttal Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:35:20 +0000 http://blog.surfulater.com/2009/04/06/too-much-of-a-good-thing/#comment-84039 [...] After writing Too much of a good thing I contacted the therein mentioned customer (Mr. T.) informing him of the blog post. To my surprise he wrote a lengthy rebuttal and with his permission here it is in full, along with another reply of mine and more from him. I hope you find this as interesting a read as I did. Thank you for your email. Allow me to share my musings on technology. [...] [...] After writing Too much of a good thing I contacted the therein mentioned customer (Mr. T.) informing him of the blog post. To my surprise he wrote a lengthy rebuttal and with his permission here it is in full, along with another reply of mine and more from him. I hope you find this as interesting a read as I did. Thank you for your email. Allow me to share my musings on technology. [...]

]]> By: nevf http://blog.surfulater.com/2009/04/06/too-much-of-a-good-thing/#comment-83930 nevf Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:50:24 +0000 http://blog.surfulater.com/2009/04/06/too-much-of-a-good-thing/#comment-83930 Alexander, yes I have been quite remiss in my blog posting of late, primarily because I have had my head down working on extensive changes to the code base in Surfulater. More information on this soon. Alexander, yes I have been quite remiss in my blog posting of late, primarily because I have had my head down working on extensive changes to the code base in Surfulater. More information on this soon.

]]> By: Alexander Deliyannis http://blog.surfulater.com/2009/04/06/too-much-of-a-good-thing/#comment-83903 Alexander Deliyannis Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:16:48 +0000 http://blog.surfulater.com/2009/04/06/too-much-of-a-good-thing/#comment-83903 "Let me finish on something which is a good thing and that is the next release of Surfulater should be out this week." A good thing indeed! And here I was wondering why you had been silent for so long... Cheers, Alexander “Let me finish on something which is a good thing and that is the next release of Surfulater should be out this week.”

A good thing indeed! And here I was wondering why you had been silent for so long…

Cheers, Alexander

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