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Plainview Update

posted by Rick Webb
Rick Webb
Rick Webb

Co-founder, COO : Boston

topics: Installations, Viral Marketing, Alcoholic Beverages, The Internet, and Social Networking and Community

on June 05, 2008 at 12:48 PM
filed under: Software
Hey all -
Just a quick note to let you know we updated Plainview to fix a few of the bugs you found. You can check for updates, or it should update when you next run the browser.
Also, we didn’t mention this before, but Plainview does have a locked kiosk mode for kiosks. Type Command-/ and enter your password to enter it! We updated the Faq on this one.
Thanks for the comments. We’ll fix things as we find them. Still checking in on the Oracle bug that was reported.

9 comments

heya barbarian group,
thank you so much for this awesome software. i missed a fullscreen browser so hardly on mac. great work. i just added it to iusethis http://osx.iusethis.com/app/plainview

grettings from germany
dotdean
hi,
i entered software's web page and i wondered "what it is". and starting to read a text area title is "What Is Plainview?" after that, stil i was asking "what it is". and then, i was keep trying to follow page, and yes! that is a mac software at least. and it is a browser.

But, if it is a spacial tool for some, what is it's main feature about being a browser?

sorry for bothering but,you know, we have to follow some great blogs (like this) and some of tiny or big stuations like this makes us spend much more time, dosn't it?

I think, there should be a summary,basic explanation about that software. BTW, it looks great, and sadly, I can't use it;)

best regards.
On June 06, 2008 at 08:33 AM, dan Su wrote:
can you add keyboard shortcuts for going back and forward in plainview? Like in safari, it is cmd+[ and cmd+].
On June 07, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Joe Ekaitis wrote:
Teeny tiny suggestion:

Make the Bookmarks list auto-close after the user clicks on a bookmark. Aside from that, I could get used to web browsing like this all the time.
I'll see what i can do about those two. We got some user agent fixes in the internal build today but more about that in another post.
Um, FF3 and FF2 do what PlainView seems to do? Or am I missing something? I don't have a mac so I can't test it to see if there's something obvious I'm not understanding here. But, if you want to fullscreen your browser and completely remove the chrome in FF3, you press F11. The address bar and such scroll out leaving no chrome behind, and you can recover the top bar by hovering at the top of the screen.

You can also skip between tabs seemlessly with Ctrl+Tab (forward one tab) and Ctrl+Shift+Tab (back one tab).

No need for a completely new browser.
@ Matt Wilcox - The Mac Version of FF does not have this functionality, sadly. Also, there's a whole presentation feature of Plainview - load up a list of websites, and go to the next one by hitting a hot key, so you can show a sequence of websites in a row.
On August 05, 2008 at 03:22 PM, Shib wrote:
Hello Barbarians,

I just love the Plainview browser! One nasty bug(?) detected: When navigating to a site where one element (for instance a frame) can not be loaded the complete screen is forwarded to the Plainview error page (i.e. not only the frame in error) "Plainview can’t connect to the server."

It doesn't happen all the time, but it's hard to predict when it does...

To replicate you may try opening a file with these contents:

<html>
<frameset cols="*,*">
<frame src="http://0.0.0.0/">
<frame src="http://www.google.com/">
</framset>
</html>
i'll take a look!
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