Comments on: Extend me baby! http://nathanmnelson.com/2008/10/20/extend-me-baby/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=extend-me-baby ...work in progress Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:25:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Nathan http://nathanmnelson.com/2008/10/20/extend-me-baby/#comment-19596 Nathan Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:32:54 +0000 http://www.spikydog.com/blog/2008/10/20/extend-me-baby/#comment-19596 Thanks Travis, Kallout does look interesting. Might give it a whirl. Mozilla are developing something like this, Ubiquity (http://labs.mozilla.com/projects/ubiquity/). Thanks Travis, Kallout does look interesting. Might give it a whirl. Mozilla are developing something like this, Ubiquity (http://labs.mozilla.com/projects/ubiquity/).

]]> By: Travis S http://nathanmnelson.com/2008/10/20/extend-me-baby/#comment-19594 Travis S Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:18:10 +0000 http://www.spikydog.com/blog/2008/10/20/extend-me-baby/#comment-19594 Nathan, You might find this useful as well... Background: the killer feature in IE-8 and Firefox is selection-based search, IMO. IE-8 cals these Accelerators. The problem with Accelerators (and the third party firefox versions) is that the user has to figure out which one to apply to his selection. It’s just unusable once you get more than two or three. The version of selection-based search which I love is KallOut. www.KallOut.com KallOut already works over IE (the older versions) and Firefox (my favorite) as well as all of office. What IE8 Beta really needs is a way for the application to automatically choose which accelerator you need to use for a given mouse-based search request. Kallout already does this with its “Best-Guess” feature. I downloaded the Kallout application from CNET but its main site is www.kallout.com Travis. Nathan,
You might find this useful as well…

Background: the killer feature in IE-8 and Firefox is selection-based search, IMO. IE-8 cals these Accelerators. The problem with Accelerators (and the third party firefox versions) is that the user has to figure out which one to apply to his selection. It’s just unusable once you get more than two or three.

The version of selection-based search which I love is KallOut. http://www.KallOut.com

KallOut already works over IE (the older versions) and Firefox (my favorite) as well as all of office.

What IE8 Beta really needs is a way for the application to automatically choose which accelerator you need to use for a given mouse-based search request. Kallout already does this with its “Best-Guess” feature.

I downloaded the Kallout application from CNET but its main site is http://www.kallout.com

Travis.

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