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dark-star 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Wikipedia Browser a La Andy Matuschak's E...

This reminds me of the old File Browser concept from NextSTEP/OpenSTEP (which, I think, was at some point also adopted by MacOS X).

I could never get used to the "horizontal history" style of browsing anything.

But I admit that for the Ultra Wide displays that are all the rage recently, this might be actually very workable

bloopernova 8 months ago [–]

"Miller columns" are what you're thinking of, and I wish more browsers (web or file) supported them.

steezeburger 8 months ago | [–]

And this is why I love HN. I did some research before this project, but now I can go look into Miller columns. Thank you!

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