Software Wish List

Browsers

• A browser should maintain a cookie directory showing which website implanted each cookie.
• A browser should not permit a website to hijack the Back sequence or to turn off any functional element, such as copying or printing.
• Control of opening a link in a separate window should be in the hands of the user, not the linking website.
• History should be editable and permanently retained.
• It should be possible to preview pages to be printed and adjust page boundaries in the printed output.
• It should be possible to print directly from the screen buffer, without downloading the page again.
• It should be possible to mark a link as unfollowed, broken, or working.
• Popups should be automatically blocked, with a complaint automatically sent to the webmaster of the offending site.

E-mail Clients

• An attachment index should be created for all (or selected) attachments sent and received.
• An e-mail program shcould autocheck for duplicates in the address list for outgoing messages, including lists within lists.
• An e-mail program should include an integrated search engine allowing multiple search criteria.
• A URL index should be created including all (or selected) links in all messages sent and received.
• Each message should include date and time received as well as date and time sent, and messages should be sorted by the time received.
• Formatted e-mail should be automatically unformatted for ease in replying and levels of quotation should be translated to the >, >>, >>>, ... system.
• It should be possible to filter messages after reading them.
• Junk mail should be transferred to the junk mailbox without the mailbox opening.
• Line lengths should be automatically equalized, as closely as possible.
• Messages and replies should be linked so that an entire exchange can easily be retrieved, including messages that quote or are replied to by more than one other message.
• Multimedia should be available but not forced on the user.
• Passages quoted in more than one message should be stored in one place to save disk space.
• Pointers should keep messages sorted simultaneously by various different criteria: sender, dtae recieved, mailing list, country of origin, subject, link, codes, etc.
• Returned mail should appear as "from" the recipient it's returned from, with the original title and a flag set. It's annoying to have to open a piece of mail that's bounced to discovered which outgoing message was returned.
• Users should be able to define their own message codes and sort messages using them.
• Users should be able to program automatic responses to certain types of messages.

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