On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 17:56:42 +1300 (NZDT), Richard A. O'Keefe  
<ok at cs.otago.ac.nz> wrote:

> There are two questions:
>  (a) Would such a feature be a good idea?
>      Probably not; I *hate* having to go clickety clickety through every
>      page I've looked at in the last couple of hours just to get to one
>      particular one.  A rather simpler thing would be to keep a list of
>      (Classname[ class][>>method]) places visited, and on request put up
>      a list where you could click directly on the one you want.
>
>  (b) What do we do NOW?
>
>     And this is where Squeak has for a long time had something I find  
> better
>     that << >> buttons.

That's hardly the only option available for backward/forward type stuff.  
Back history list and forward history lists under the << >> buttons, a  
history frame, MRUs.

>     In my view this is _better_ because instead of clickety-clicketying
>     backwards and forwards, you can have _several_ browsers open on  
> different
>     places at the same time.
>
>     You can have rather more browsers open at once than you might have
>     realised, because they can be collapsed to just their title bars.
>     20 browsers is not (quite) unamanageable.

Squeak is big enough to support both approaches.