New idea for a web browser/PIM tool: vertical-only view browser. Say, something restricted to 600px in width. Because the Web is vertical.
Having this design restriction also provokes several interesting decisions:
• One element at a time is an optimal pace. Narrow view would not work well with multiple elements alongside each other. And maybe that’s for good?
• Views can be easily reordered and tiled, utilizing the horizontal dimensions of most modern screens. Imagine a browser that can be open five times on one screen without any penalties to comprehension!
• Page content needs to be ruthlessly optimized and reordered. Something like Readability.js (I keep getting back to it, all the time) but also for non-article pages?
• Can be used as a cheap GUI—still compatible with the Web, but easy to spin up in a separate window and manage with OS’ primitives.
Artyom Boologov
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2025-12-03 23:14:34 UTC
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