[Dillo-dev]Hyperlinks as images

[<jbr...@di...>]

Hi everyone,

I thought of this idea a while ago, but I'm not sure how useful/practical it would be in practice, but at least it is an original, (as far as I know) and interesting idea:

How about an option to render all hyperlinks as small, (e.g. 128x128), thumbnails of the page they link to?  Ignoring the fact that it would be wasteful of bandwidth, (fetching the html and inline images of all the linked pages), I can think of at least one instance where it would be very useful - locating a site that you found by following 20 links from one page to another, and then didn't bother to bookmark, but wished you had.  Everybody has done it from time to time, you can 'see' the page in your head, but none or your searches turns it up.  Now, if you could quickly glance down a load of thumbails of search results, wouldn't that help?

Even if this isn't deemed a workable idea, at least I can use this post as prior art when somebody patents the idea, (which they are bound to try to do eventually) :-).

John.