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Spatial Searching in Curio and Safari

Daniel J. Wilson points out that Curio supports spatial searching.

This is a Curio document:

A Curio Document

As soon as I start typing a search word, Curio starts making non-matching elements transparent:

Searching in a Curio Document

Safari and Firefox use similar solutions. This is how it looks in Safari:

Searching in Safari

August 10th, 2008 / Tags: spatial searching, usability, curio, safari / Trackback

Hi. My name is Lukas Mathis. I studied Computer Science/Software Engineering and Ergonomics/Usability at ETH Zürich. I work as a software engineer and user interface designer for a swiss software company creating workflow management software. My first computer was a Performa 450, my first programming language was HyperTalk, my first electric guitar was a cheap Peavey, my first videogame was a VCS 2600 and my current snowboard is from Lib Tech. You can reach me at or on twitter.

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