I don't think this article accurately represents the scope of Pancake's ambitions. Optionally hiding the url bar is a fairly trivial UI consideration. Clicking through to the Google group shows a more interesting (if a bit superficial) exchange about visualisation of the web's underlying graph.
That sounds a lot more interesting to me, but still pretty superficial. I hope they're exploring more fundamental and more drastic changes. Like how about a distributed commenting system, in which blog posts can be tagged as responses to each other and the browser does the work of collecting responses. The browser could then display a tree of responses (both up and down) in a manipulable way, i.e. a user could control threadedness, collapsedness, sort order (based on social network?), etc.[0]
Or how about a better navigation paradigm? (If I were to have my way, a strictly keyboard based one. [1])
It seems like the Pancake team is in a unique position to dream big. I hope they do.
That sounds a lot more interesting to me, but still pretty superficial. I hope they're exploring more fundamental and more drastic changes. Like how about a distributed commenting system, in which blog posts can be tagged as responses to each other and the browser does the work of collecting responses. The browser could then display a tree of responses (both up and down) in a manipulable way, i.e. a user could control threadedness, collapsedness, sort order (based on social network?), etc.[0]
Or how about a better navigation paradigm? (If I were to have my way, a strictly keyboard based one. [1])
It seems like the Pancake team is in a unique position to dream big. I hope they do.
[0]: http://blog.byjoemoon.com/post/3357516295/end-of-comments-ii...
[1]: http://blog.byjoemoon.com/post/9325300749/a-different-kind-o...