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Safari is technically a belvedere on its own, abstracted from the App Store. Until the day that Gatekeeper comes to iOS, it will abide to be the best accessible way for users to admission advice on Apple's adaptable devices. But besides iCloud Tabs and Annual List, Adaptable Safari has remained basically banausic aback its unveiling, in 2007.
I capital to anticipate what Safari on iOS could be if it took on the developments that accept occurred on added browsers over the aftermost few years, and acclimatize the user acquaintance to bout changes that accept occurred abroad on the platform.
Your iPhone's browser has been sitting in about the exact aforementioned accompaniment for over bristles years. Apple's tweaked and aesthetic the browser—which was consistently solid—but sometimes it still feels stale. Artist Brent Caswell has a admirable eyes for Safari's future.
Today, all avant-garde browsers accept a unified abode and chase bar (including Safari on the Mac). What Apple calls a "Smart Chase Field" has additionally broadcast above the archetypal chase and go, as it looks through your history, antecedent searches, and sometimes alike the agreeable of pages that you've visited. Unifying the two fields additionally has the abeyant to acceleration up the browsing experience; you can't accidentally tap on the amiss bar. I bethink aback I aboriginal started to use a unified bar on Google Chrome, the acquaintance aloof acquainted always added simple and straightforward.
One of the obstacles to this affinity is the altered keyboards that arise aback the user curtains on one of the two fields The chase keyboard is appealing typical, while the abode field's keyboard is congenital to blazon URLs. I had to beguile the individuality of the boards in adjustment to accomplish them arise together. But, in the end, I anticipate there is a net accretion to the boilerplate user.
You'll apprehension that the basal bar is on top of the keyboard, which adeptness attending a little aberrant at first. What it does, though, is acquiesce for the user to anon activate accounting on a new folio aloof as calmly as they can admission their bookmarks. This would, again, save the user from an accidental tap.
I've added icons to the after-effects to advice the user accept what anniversary advantage is. If you alpha to annal the list, the keyboard goes bottomward and out of the way, like it does in best added apps.
Currently, aback you tap the bookmarks button, you are greeted by a alternation of bookmarks, folders, and bogus folders for Annual List, iCloud Tabs, and History. While it makes faculty for Annual Account and History to be in this area of the app, iCloud Tabs absolutely accord beneath the Pages bureaucracy (more on that later). Personally, I don't anticipate that bogus folders accomplish sense, so I instead fabricated them tabs above the basal of the screen. The designers of iPad's adaptation of Safari assume to accede with me.
So now we're activity to get into some abysmal UI stuff. On the iPhone, there's a charge for a "Done" button because the Bookmarks area fills the absolute screen; on the iPad you aloof accept to tap anywhere on the awning to abolish the pop-up, and aback you're central of a binder and you columnist "Edit," the aback button is replaced with a "New Folder" button (which I anticipation was beneath than elegant).
In the end, it was the aback button on the top of the awning that I bare to do abroad with. But in adjustment to do that I had to absolutely change the way that folders attending and feel. I took some acquaint from folders on the home awning (which don't accept aback buttons).
In my adaptation of Safari, folders are abaft the list. Aback the binder in the annual is tapped, the annual break in bisected and slides out of the way to acknowledge the capacity of the folder. Borer on the appellation of the binder a additional time closes the folder.
Like all added apps, chase would be hidden beneath the appellation bar, and you would accept to cull the annual bottomward to acknowledge it. I'm aloof assuming it actuality because it doesn't abide in the accepted app.
Editing bookmarks could be fabricated abundant added able by application the accumulation alteration arrangement that exists in the banal Mail app. That, accumulated with bookmark options actualization aback the user swipes over a bookmark (think Twitter), makes for a abundant added able-bodied alteration experience.
After a few months of application iOS 6's Photo Beck feature, I begin it black that Apple didn't spread the iCloud adulation to its added apps. Really, every banal app on iOS could accept bigger affiliation with iCloud, above simple syncing. There could be collaborative notes, you could accelerate bodies reminders, or you could accept accessible bookmark folders aloof like you accept accessible photo albums through Photo Stream. So while Bookmark Beck adeptness not be the catchiest name, I anticipate that it's an abstraction annual exploring.
Unlike Photo Stream, Bookmark Beck would be collaborative; added than one being could accord to the capacity of a folder. The user could additionally accept to artlessly allotment the capacity of a folder. In adjustment for this arrangement to work, the participants of the beck accept to be disconnected into two categories: "contributors," and "subscribers."
Contributors can appearance and adapt the capacity of a stream. Subscribers can alone appearance the capacity of a Bookmark Stream. If it isn't public, contributors could additionally allure bodies to accord or subscribe to the beck (if it is public, again anyone with a cable articulation could subscribe, but they would still accept to be arrive if they capital to accord to the stream).
Once added than one being is a contributor, the beck cannot be deleted unless all contributors accept "left" the beck (Tumblr does commodity agnate with their blogs). If you appetite to get an abstraction of what alteration a bookmark beck would be like, bang here.
Reading Annual is about larboard unchanged. I've confused the UI about to save space, and I've added the adeptness to accumulation edit. Aback in the alteration mode, a " " button replaces the "Done" button, which allows the user to add an annual to their annual list.
The pages appearance has afflicted absolutely a bit. Instead of artlessly assuming one folio at a time, the user can see four. As I said before, iCloud Tabs confused from the bookmarks area to the pages view.
In iOS, an app can acquaint the operating arrangement that it has the adeptness to handle assertive book types, and an app can accept abutment for its files to be opened in added apps. But what about web agreeable in Safari? I anticipate that apps should be able to admission agreeable on the web through Safari's activity sheet. Here's a few types of agreeable that apps could handle:
As is currently the case, the activity area is alleged by either acute the activity button (for acting on the absolute page) or long-pressing on the agreeable that you appetite to booty activity on (for acting on commodity aural the page). Above is an archetype of what adeptness arise aback an angel is long-pressed.
Of advance the annual is alone bound by the types of apps that you accept installed on your iOS device. If you accept Photoshop Touch installed, again you could accessible .psd files.
But apps should be able to do added than aloof accessible files, there should be a abeyant for apps to be able to accomplish altered accomplishments to content. So you could Tweet a articulation or you could DM a link, through Twitter. Two actions, one app.
The user would accept ascendancy over which accomplishments would arise in the activity sheet, in the settings of Safari. The accomplishments could be rearranged aural the area by captivation bottomward one of the icons until they wiggle, the aforementioned way that icons are rearranged on the homescreen.
Of course, this affectionate of "open activity sheet" would be abundant to accept on the arrangement level, but because this is alone a abstraction for Safari, I will accept to leave it there.
One of the newest developments in web technologies is web notifications. Best avant-garde browsers accept abutment for web notifications, and I anticipate adaptable Safari should abutment it too. Controlling which websites can accelerate you notifications could be handled in notification ambience in the aforementioned way that Mail's notification's are handled (on an annual level). So anniversary website could accept its own active appearance and sound, and the user could accept whether they appetite the notification to be arresting in the lock awning and if it would actualize a brand on Safari's icon.
When you get a notification and accessible up Safari, a little banderole with the notification argument would be affianced to the top of the app. You could either abolish the banderole by borer the "x" or accessible the notification's web folio by borer the banner.
Reader on Safari is basically a bare bottomward adaptation of iBooks. But why does it charge to be bare down? I anticipate that bodies are aloof as acceptable to absorb bisected an hour annual a continued commodity on a backing Sunday afternoon as they are to apprehend an iBook. Reader on Safari should accept abutment for adduce sharing, pagination, user appointed themes, user appointed fonts, distraction-less reading, and absolute accuracy control.
Safari is aloof one of Apple's abounding banal apps which I anticipate are in charge of an update. And while the updates that I'm suggesting adeptness not be perfect, I anticipate they would accumulate iOS affective forward.
Some of the appearance that I'm proposing, like Bookmark Stream, could be on all versions of Safari. I capital to absolute myself to the iPhone's adaptation of Safari, so that the activity wouldn't get too out of hand. I'll save the iPad and Mac's adaptation of Safari for addition day.
Thanks for reading.
Brent Caswell is a artist and political science apprentice at the University of Alabama - Birmingham. You can apprehend added of his thoughts on UX, design, and technology in accepted here.
