Pogo: Another Web Browser?

[oz]

Here's the demo on AT&T's new web browser called Pogo for anyone interested:

AT&T Pogo - Product Demo

From what I understand, the browser requires a 1.6GHz processor, 2GB of RAM, and a video card with at least 256MB of VRAM. Not sure if it will be available for Linux users. Either way, I'll probably be sticking with Firefox.

[thesimplecreator]

haha that's quite a bit of resources for just a web browser.
i watched the video, it just seems like a normal web browser overbloated with eyecandy

seems like it would be almost impossible for anyoine running vista to use this.



Viva Le FireFox!

[oz]

Yep, definitely seems to be a bit on the heavy end of the spectrum.

[techieMoe]

I read and article with some shots and movies on it. Doesn't look like anything I'd use, personally. I see "eye candy for the sake of eye candy" as a virus that's infecting modern-day user interface programming. I don't want "widgets", "gagdets", or "plasmoids". I sure as hell don't want a web browser that looks like the bastard child of iTunes CoverFlow and Sun's Project Looking Glass.

[oz]

An early prediction here that it will be short lived.

[Manchunian]

Yuck! uke: That is one application I definitely won't be tempted to try - even if it does work on Linux. Strange, though, how something so obviously made to look like Vista is running on an XP machine. Perhaps they can't find a computer powerful enough to run it on Vista.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to Firefox 3: that's one thing I will be installing!

[smolloy]

I dunno. I think it looks pretty cool. Yeah, heavy as all hell, and a beast to run just for checking your email, but, what can I say -- I like eye candy.

Aside from the obvious, over the top, eye candy, it looks like it could solve a few problems. E.g. visual bookmarks/history, so you don't have to read every damn url to figure out where that link is that you read a week ago, but you can't find on google any more. Much easier to browse through images of the sites you visited til you find the one you want. (Yes, I plagiarised this comment from Slashdot.)

But, alas, I can't see them making a linux version of this, so I'll be staying with trusty ol'firefox for the forseeable future.

[IsaacKuo]

I think a lot of the ideas could be useful, and hopefully this will prompt Mozilla and Microsoft to finally put something in their browsers for users to get excited about.

[elija]

Holy Cow!

That's a lot of resources just to browse the web. And to think I
complain about how heavy Firefox is becoming!

[oz]

It's my understanding that this browser is based on Firefox, so if some really good features are implemented by AT&T, maybe the Firefox folks will eventually incorporate them into the default browser.