Re: New View Mode: docked

On Friday, May 11, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Marcos Caceres wrote:

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> On Friday, 11 May 2012 at 11:07, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > The View Modes spec currently conflates the idea of a minimised and a 
> > docked application. Opera has a concrete use case for extending the spec 
> > to add a "docked" View mode which is seperate, and we have seen another 
> > one in usage.
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> > 1. Extensions / Speed Dial Extensions (concrete requirement):
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> > Opera's Speed Dial Extensions are pretty much minimised applications, 
> > running in a small region, but still providing the app with full control 
> > over the rendering, via HTML/CSS/SVG/etc etc. By contrast, when an 
> > extension is on a toolbar, it gets an icon and a short text "badge", both 
> > of which can be changed, but it does not have a real rendering surface.
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> > We are looking to extend the functionality of our extensions platform, 
> > still basing it on the widget standards including View Mode, but we really 
> > need to have this distinction. We could implement it anyway (and probably 
> > will), but it would be useful to have it as part of the standard stack.
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> Sure, it's trivial to define a "badge" mode. The problem is that both views can be present simultaneously - or two documents are being presented out of the same widget at the same time (better, IMO). This means that the view mode model might be wrong as it applies to individual documents and not to the widget itself.

Actually, I think the model is ok. It's been a long time since I looked at view modes. 

Received on Friday, 11 May 2012 15:55:42 UTC