//this is a rewrite (not translate) of my post below
When I write something online, either it’s my blog, or something on a wiki, I always want to insert something into my post - be it a link, or an image - you name it, things that I can find online.
But inserting a link or an image is extremely painful, see how many steps I need to go through to get a link:
- ctrl + t to open up another tab in my browser
- move my right hand from keyboard to the mouse, click google toolbar
- move my right hand from the mouse back to keyboard (optionally, use my left pinky to press shift, so as to toggle my IME), type the stuff I want to search
- move my right hand from keyboard to mouse, click on the things I found interesting
- copy the link, ctrl+tab to go back to the tab I was writing stuff, and get ready to start inserting the link
5 steps, with 2 round trips of my right hand between the keyboard and the mouse, and that’s just getting the link.
Whenever I did this, I would look at the white space on the right half of my screen, and wonder:
Why nobody add a div there, with a ajax search box in it, so that I don’t have to switch to a different tab to do the search?
After all, writing something online is adding another node to the existing web, right? Why not make it easier for us? The only reason I can think of is:
Authors of WordPress and Google Doc are not aware of this pain, most likely, they write their own doc in M$ WORD, which does not need that much work of searching for a link.