Wired has a fairly dull interview with Marc Andreesson, the father of the Web browser (or: one of the men who produced a market-breaking implementation of Tim Berners-Lee's browser, if you prefer. Wired is simply wrong to say Mosaic was "the first browser to navigate the World Wide Web"). Andreesson says: "If I had to do it over again, I'd probably show some sort of graphical representation of a tree, so you could see what path you're traveling on and could backtrack. I'd also include thumbnail renderings on the tree to show where you'd been." Seems a pretty obvious but good idea, and curiously enough, it's one that I saw in action inside Microsoft Research a couple of years ago. Of course, getting something like that shipped in IE is a different matter, but I don't see why it couldn't be done as a BHO [Browser Helper Object]. Has anyone done it?
Oh, if you want to know how many BHOs do you have in IE, you can check.
