WebPositive ideas

A fast, simple, clean and intuitive browser for Haiku - in the spirit of NetPositive!

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Below I've listed some features I believe is a must for a modern browser. The purpose is not to encourage everyone to list their favorite, obscure, addons, but rather promote a discussion on what is needed in a modern browser while at the same time keeping in mind it should be as light as possible. What is really useful to the average user (and by that I don't mean your grandmother?

WebPositive could either fall in the trap of being too simple, or too bloated. What would be a "happy mean"? Is that even possible? Or is it possible to include some general, but important, features that would make everyone (generally) happy? Below are some. I'm sure there is more :)

Tabs (obvious)

The (current?) inbuilt tab interface of Haiku may not work too well in a browser?
What about allowing for persistent and "faviconized" tabs? Very useful nowadays ("webapps").

Is the approach of Google Chrome really more fruitful?

Bookmarks (obvious)

	Possibility of adding bookmarks to any toolbar, and/or to it's own dedicated one (like Firefox)? Using the default bookmark "format" of BeOS, storing them as files in a folder, so they can be shared amongst different browsers (for example).
	Popular Firefox addon: FaviconPicker (let's the user pick a custom favicon for each bookmark) combined with the possibility of removing the bookmark label (very useful when adding a lot of bookmarks, especially on low resolution displays).

Stylish/Greasemonkey

Stylish and Greasemonkey are both two very useful and popular additions to Firefox, and could be to WebPositive as well.
Easy, built-in, support for the thousands of userscripts and userstyles available would be great.

With support built-in, we could have an easy way to add both userscripts and userstyles in a "unified" manner (see mockup).
It would just need a name that would clearly indicate it's purpose. Styles and scripts should also be stored as files, so that they can be easily shared between computers (which also would make it easier for backup, as for bookmarks).

The scripts/styles stored as files would maybe render this interface useless?

(I don't know if this is even would be possible, though I can't see any reason why not)

Element Blocking

Firefox has it's AdBlock addon, which is probably one of the most popular addons available. I believe that AdBlock has purposes other than just blocking ads. It allows for blocking any element you want. This can of course also be done by Stylish/Greasemonkey, but AFAIK, they only "hide" them. It's possible that AdBlock just hides the elements as well, but I'm under the impression that AdBlock keeps the elements in question from downloading at all. That is most definitely useful.

I understand that this is somewhat problematic (after all, most commercial internet sites depends completely on advertisement revenue). An element blocking feature don't have to be advertised as an AdBlocker per se, and besides: If we are to respect ads, then we should demand respect in return (FLASH FLASH FLASH .. YOU JUST WON 1.000.000.000, CLICK HERE!! .. FLASH FLASH FLAHS). (When watching TV we are luckily still allowed to mute the sound during commercials).

This could be implemented in the right click menu, "Block this element/frame/whatever", and by providing a simple list of blocked elements, maybe something like:

* Annoying-Site-Which-I-Still-Need-To-Visit-From-Time-To-Time.com
- Block: Malicious-Crap.com/Annoying-Elements-On-Other-Servers/Go-Away/*
- Block: Malicious-Crap.com/elements/something.swf

* Other-Site.com
- Block: .../something/...
- ...

Refresh/Stop (nitpick)

Combined refresh page/stop loading. Saves space and keeps the interface minimal.

Replicant

Where to place the "replicant dragger"? :)