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“Latitude” Browser Concept

Latitude IconSebastiaan de With is a very talented graphic designer, and he often posts some really nice articles on his blog, Cocoia. The other day he posted a mockup of his “Dream Browser,” and now, about a week later, developers have contacted him about making his idea into a real application.

The browser’s main inspiration is the iTunes sidebar. That list includes all of your tabs, bookmarks, RSS feeds, downloads, and more.

Latitude Screenshot

Other fresh ideas include putting web videos into a Quick Look-style pop-out window, and a Time Machine themed History interface. This is still very much in the “idea” stage, so don’t expect anything to come out of it very soon, but I post the mockups here out of interest. Hopefully they’ll become a reality in the not-so-distant future.

Clutter-free interface and pop-out video.

Latitude Screenshot

Time Machine inspired History viewing

Latitude Screenshot

To see more screenshots and to read more about this idea, check out Sebastiaan’s orginal post and his follow up. Would you use this browser? What do you see that you really like? What would you change?

Note: All images in this post were created by and are the property of Sebastiaan de With.

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    Dan said on

    February 27th, 2008 at 8:23 am

    boy does this look cool! hope this becomes real!

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    Sergio said on

    February 27th, 2008 at 9:53 am

    Great!!! :D I hope this browser will soon born…

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    Chris Thomson said on

    February 27th, 2008 at 1:18 pm

    I can’t wait for this to be developed. The mockups look awesome.

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    SB said on

    February 27th, 2008 at 2:20 pm

    Sounds like http://www.spacetime.com/ with a few Leopard enhancements.

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    Dark said on

    February 27th, 2008 at 6:09 pm

    I would most definitely use it.

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    TryAgain277 said on

    February 28th, 2008 at 1:00 am

    The idea of creating a browser simular to the finder sounds cool, but the TimeMachine for history, prbably not a great idea and pop-outs in HUD windows would require alot of smart code.

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    ErichD said on

    February 28th, 2008 at 3:40 am

    The Time Machine History looks like what we might see a future version of Browseback by Smile on My Mac:

    http://www.smileonmymac.com/browseback/index.html

    So if that’s what you want, you CAN have it now!

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