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Thanks to your input in the Survey thread I posted a month back, me and my partner have created the first beta version of our Visual Basic internet browser.
It is now my task to get some feedback on what we have so far, so I was wondering if some people would be willing to help us out again by beta testing our browser. It is a quick install, and would only require a few minutes of testing to answer the feedback questions. If you like it enough, you are free to keep using it too
I would like to state up front though, that it is definitely in beta form. Some of the menu items do not work yet, they are merely ideas we want to implement. There could also be other glitches that we have not ran into yet.
The current browser setup:
The first tab of the browser is a full-screen window, allowing for traditional web browsing. The second tab is two panes next to each other (hard to tell when you first click on the tab, since the window will be blank) but each can browse to an independent location, side by side. To make use of them, just click on either the right or left side, and type in the web address you would like to visit at the top. Also, the viewing size of each the left and right side of tab 2 can be adjusted, just drag the middle.
Currently, all of the buttons work (Go, Back, Forward, Refresh, Stop, Home)
Currently, only these drop-down menu items work:
File:
-New
-Print
Edit:
-none
View:
-none
Tools:
-set homepage
Help:
-about..
Features we hope to implement:
-All menu items will be working
-A URL fix that will change accidental ","s to "."s (example, if you were to type www.google,com the browser would automatically fix it and go to www.google.com)
-An option to modify the default bookmark links listed along the top (currently they are default to google.com and yahoo.com, for testing purposes)
Currently, these are the known problems:
-When installed on some computers, the second tab does not show the bottom scroll bars for the side-by-side panes
Feedback I am looking for:
1)What do you think of the overall set up of the browser (appearance, layout, etc.)?
2)Do you think the first tab or second tab should be the basis for the browser (i.e. if we were to make all tabs like one or the other)?
3)What do you think of the button layout? Is the location convenient enough? What would you think of the buttons running down the left/right side?
4)In the zip file is a BMP image titled 'form 5 buttons.' Would you think the browser would look better or worse if we used these buttons instead of the current ones?
5)Other comments/suggestions for future versions?
EDIT: thanks to AcidBath I now have the file hosted Here
Included in the zip file is a text document including the questions, and my e-mail to send the response to me. Just extract and install. It is only a ~360 Kb file
Thank you in advance for your input, it is greatly appreciated. feel free to either answer the questions in a reply to this thread, or in an e-mail to me here: sarazyn_joshua@roberts.edu
It is now my task to get some feedback on what we have so far, so I was wondering if some people would be willing to help us out again by beta testing our browser. It is a quick install, and would only require a few minutes of testing to answer the feedback questions. If you like it enough, you are free to keep using it too
I would like to state up front though, that it is definitely in beta form. Some of the menu items do not work yet, they are merely ideas we want to implement. There could also be other glitches that we have not ran into yet.
The current browser setup:
The first tab of the browser is a full-screen window, allowing for traditional web browsing. The second tab is two panes next to each other (hard to tell when you first click on the tab, since the window will be blank) but each can browse to an independent location, side by side. To make use of them, just click on either the right or left side, and type in the web address you would like to visit at the top. Also, the viewing size of each the left and right side of tab 2 can be adjusted, just drag the middle.
Currently, all of the buttons work (Go, Back, Forward, Refresh, Stop, Home)
Currently, only these drop-down menu items work:
File:
-New
Edit:
-none
View:
-none
Tools:
-set homepage
Help:
-about..
Features we hope to implement:
-All menu items will be working
-A URL fix that will change accidental ","s to "."s (example, if you were to type www.google,com the browser would automatically fix it and go to www.google.com)
-An option to modify the default bookmark links listed along the top (currently they are default to google.com and yahoo.com, for testing purposes)
Currently, these are the known problems:
-When installed on some computers, the second tab does not show the bottom scroll bars for the side-by-side panes
Feedback I am looking for:
1)What do you think of the overall set up of the browser (appearance, layout, etc.)?
2)Do you think the first tab or second tab should be the basis for the browser (i.e. if we were to make all tabs like one or the other)?
3)What do you think of the button layout? Is the location convenient enough? What would you think of the buttons running down the left/right side?
4)In the zip file is a BMP image titled 'form 5 buttons.' Would you think the browser would look better or worse if we used these buttons instead of the current ones?
5)Other comments/suggestions for future versions?
EDIT: thanks to AcidBath I now have the file hosted Here
Included in the zip file is a text document including the questions, and my e-mail to send the response to me. Just extract and install. It is only a ~360 Kb file
Thank you in advance for your input, it is greatly appreciated. feel free to either answer the questions in a reply to this thread, or in an e-mail to me here: sarazyn_joshua@roberts.edu