Like cars, buildings and airplanes, browsers can have concept models. That’s the concept behind Aurora, a new “concept browser” from the Mozilla Foundation.

Emanating from the Mozilla Labs initiative, where users are encouraged to offer new browser ideas, the concept is available in video visualizations. In the videos, Aurora envisions a variety of new interaction models that push the concepts of collaboration, real-world interaction, and context.

notes as User Objects

For instance, weather goods can be

collected as a user-controllable object, dropped onto a screen where it displays a graph, and thereupon dragged to a desktop. The basic thrust of that video is that two humans are finding, exchanging and examining notes as they might do with physical materials.

Another clip demonstrates a futuristic bookmark system. Folders of bookmarks are represented by small page images in a row at the top of the page, and all the bookmarks […]

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