- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 13:15:26 +0000 (UTC)
I'm really stuck on this problem of how to handle running remote applications so they definitely look like they are remote, and an application on paypcl.com is definitely distinguishable from one on paypal.com, even if they use near-identical code. It should also always be possible for the user to control his windows completely -- resize "unresizable" ones, not have any popup windows that break out of the browser, always have access to the UA menu bar or toolbar, etc. Yet we want these applications to look nice, and have their own toolbars and so forth, without looking silly. For popup windows I think the best plan is probably to have "fake" popup windows that are basically just position <div>s (which can be resized, etc, but are restricted to the content area of the parent Web page). So that's not a big problem. The big problem is how to handle menus on the primary top-level Web application window. In fact, on Mac, there is no per-window menu bar, and there is no way that Web apps will ever have access to the top-level menu bar, so come to think of it menu bars in general are out. How should Web applications provide their feature access points? Any suggestions on how to handle this would be welcome. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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