Minor technology gripe of the day, why can’t Apple update its webkit renderer to support Firefox-style find-as-you-type? So often these days I’ll be reading something in NewNewsWire or Mail.app and just start typing in order to find something. Its one of the simplest UI advances I’ve seen in the past few years and I’ve become completely addicted to it in Firefox.
Even adding incremental-style find to traditional “Find…” interfaces would be much better than popping up a modal window that demands I type my whole term in, click search, and then cycle through what’s found (usually having to hunt for the highlighted word in a dense screen).
Sure NetNewsWire could add this on their own, but if Apple just updated their rendering widget I think everyone would inherit it.
Oh, and while I’m offline on the train and wishing for things, it would be nice if NNW had a pre-fetch mode for images linked in blogs. I’m missing the point of about 20% of the blog entries I read that are heavily image-dependent.
