Favourites Centre in IE7
The new way of managing Favourites introduced by IE7. See also: Adding a Favourite.
Bugs
- Cursor:
- Remains in the hand style when hovering over context menu for an item. Should use default style.
- Uses default style when hovering over a folder. Should use hand for consistency with folder hyperlink hover styling?
- Explorer Bar:
- Pinning the Favourites Centre makes it 1 pixel wider with the treeview 1 pixel shorter than using View > Explorer Bar > Favourites.
- Stop it from overlapping the status bar. IE6 got this right.
- Hover styling makes items unreadable.
- Underline hover styling is lost when mouse moves over the Open item in tab/Open folder in a tab group button.
- Tooltip often stops being displayed for that button. Can only get it back after restarting IE7.
- Too many separators in context menus.
Context Menu for Items
IE7 has this:
- Open
- Open in New Tab
- Create New Folder
- Sort by Name
- -
- -
- Cut
- Copy
- -
- Delete
- Rename
- -
- Properties
Use hyperlink context menu as a basis:
- Replace Add to Favourites with Sort by Name.
Context Menu for Folders
IE7 has this:
- Expand/Collapse
- Open in Tab Group
- Create New Folder
- Sort by Name
- -
- Open
- -
- Scan with AVG
- -
- Cut
- Copy
- -
- Delete
- Rename
- -
- Properties
Use hyperlink context menu as a basis:
- Replace Add to Favourites item with Sort by Name.
- Change all New Tab commands to Tab Group commands.
Ideas
Retain the existing drag and drop support.
Keyboard
Ctrl+B and Ctrl+I should toggle the Favourites Centre Explorer Bar.
Floating Mode
- Can’t keep the overlay open because it usually obscures some main navigation.
- Makes the interface more complicated and less consistent with other Windows applications, such as Windows Explorer and Microsoft Office.
- Keep the normal Explorer Bar. Users can close it on websites which are not flexible enough.
Hover Styling
- Use treeview + and - indicators? Consistent with View > Explorer Bar > Folders in Windows Explorer.
- Use the more conservative hyperlink styles in Windows Explorer? This improves both readability and consistency with Windows whilst keeping some hover styling.
- Don’t have a weird right-arrow button to open things in tabs. They can use the same techniques they use on links in web pages.