Sherlock 3 and html

[lonny]

Hey!
The new Sherlock displays html content.. could this be the first step towards an Apple Browser?

Wouldn't hurt at all, would it?

[uoba]

But to be honest, if Apple were to develop one, I reckon they would buy Omniweb or do something with Chimera.

[ElDiabloConCaca]

You know, that actually makes a lot of sense. Apple, in my opinion, is EXTREMELY creative, and a leader of the pack when it comes to pulling together cutting-edge technologies in ways that we'd never even think of with wonderful results.

Perhaps Apple sees it as ridiculous to have a web browser as a stand-alone application. Could Sherlock evolve into a multi-faceted search application? You could browse the web, search your hard drive, and look up an old high school buddy with an on-line yellow pages all from the same application. Kinda like Watson with an integrated browser?

Apple is the leader of the "digital revolution," or whatever name you want to place on it, and so far their applications have gone above and beyond what they seem to be on the surface: iTunes - manage your music, as well as manage your MP3 player (iPod) AND burn CDs. iPhoto - manage your digital photos, as well as organize them, order a printed book, and email them. iMovie - well, that's kinda self-explanatory, but it's still the easiest and most intuitive way to get the job done.

Apple has a way of taking something that other people have made WAY too complex and turning it into an everyday, simple, intuitive thing. Browsers seem the next thing... cookies? Site passwords? Helper applications? My brain is fried! Apple -- take Sherlock and help us out with this!

Ok, I'm not known for wild speculation, or even gabbing about rumors. Frankly, I sit back and wait and don't get my expectations up, and I'm impressed every time Apple gives me something new to work with. However, when lonny mentioned Sherlock, HTML, and Apple browser all in the same sentence, it made a lot of sense to me. Sherlock would be a MUCH better name than iSurf or iWeb or iAnything -- more professional, more fitting -- since Sherlock evokes images of "searching intelligently," and that's exactly what you're supposed to do with the web. Somehow this is just clicking in my head...

[lonny]

ElDiablo, that's exactly what I was thinking of...
Proper integration of browsing into desktop activity, no need to start another app everytime. Search, read, download... from the finder using Sherlock.
That's the direction to follow.

[uoba]

Explorer on Windows I know, it doesn't do all that you mentioned, but yeh, I see your point now. Nice.

[Lazarus18]

uabo, you took the words out of my mouth.

I'm not so sure this is the way to go. Microsoft gets branded a monopolist for integrating the OS and the web browser, etc etc. While I'm no friend of Redmond, I must admit that this practice leads to a far faster browser. However, I think it better to have individual apps that do exactly what you need, instead of 3,000 things and you only use 2 features. This is what is so infuriating about the bloatware that is Office.

Konqueror and Nautilus in Linux are similarly trying to be all things to all people and do a poor job at it IMHO. They are too slow as file managers. If Apple wants to make a web browser out of Sherlock, that's fine with me. If it can also "browse" your harddrive, OK that's what it started as. But stop the madness there. Better yet, just spin off the web browsing part as its own thing and call it something else.

[simX]

Sherlock will never turn into a full-featured web browser? It's evolving more into something like Watson. I like that much better than making it into a web browser. Watson is PERFECT for my needs, but it can't do everything, like browse these boards or anything.

If Apple makes a web browser, it WILL be a SEPARATE application that you open just to browse the web. Sherlock will never be iSurf or whatever name you want to call it.

[Lazarus18]

SimX, do you work in marketing?

iSurf, a brilliant name! What do you do with it? iSurf of course! A bit silly perhaps, but it is a nice cheery little name. Not sure it would go with Apple trying to be a serious unix based desktop OS....