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	RE: TRICKY BROWSER GUYS

Re:	Re: Tricky Browser Guys
Sent:	1/31/97; 2:17:07 PM
From:	garyt@bulldogbeach.com (Gary Teter)

Hear, hear! I agree one thousand percent with this one.

Here's what I'd do with it: I want a web browser that stores a compressed, indexed version of every page I visit. Then I want to be able to query that archive just like I do Alta Vista. "I know I've been to that page sometime in the last 6 months -- why can't I find it again?" (And then hit a button and have the same query sent to my favorite search engine, with the results integrated automagically with the hits from my local database....)

It'd be a lot easier to make this web gadget myself (as a Java app, of course) if Netscape & Explorer would just let me grab a copy of whatever's on the screen. As it is, my app has to re-fetch the page, thus hitting the server needlessly and wasting bandwidth.

(Note: Any similarities between this concept and Vannevar Bush's Memex are purely intentional.)

Bonus question: Why must web browsers spread zillions of tiny files all over my hard disk, cluttering my file system and increasing the chances that a FAT table or something else important will get screwed up in the process?

C'mon, you Bay Area yahoos, get yer acts together!