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0 pointsmatsemann2d ago0 comments

Opera had this feature where it knew what the next page for stuff was, and other things. Not sure if it was a rel link or just some clever heuristics. But browsing BB forums with mouse gestures one felt like a God in how one could move around. Next post, next page, next topic without clicking anything.

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vikingerik2d ago

That was heuristics. It looked for the text "more" or "next" or "->" within an anchor tag. Sometimes it would be fooled if a forum thread or other link had a title containing one of those words.

mananaysiempre2d ago

Heurisrics augmenting a (half-)standard[1,2,3] that, in a more idealistic time, some people cared enough to follow: <link rel="prev"> et al.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

[2] https://microformats.org/wiki/existing-rel-values#HTML5_link...

[3] https://www.iana.org/assignments/link-relations/link-relatio...

bergheim2d ago

If you use an extension like vimium, you get this by using the standard [[ and ]] vim motions for this.

Also, using the keyboard for navigation, while it sounds like a chore, is really quite excellent, and I prefer it to the mouse, as crazy as that might sound.

matsemannOP2d ago

I don't disagree, but I haven't used a traditional mouse in years. I have a rollermouse, so it's just a bar just below the space bar, which I can reach with my thumbs without moving my hands from home row!

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