- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:08:20 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Dean Edwards wrote: > > > > If you do something during print preview, you're making big > > assumptions about the UI model. (e.g. that it is synchronous). > > Fair enough. But in all the browsers I've tried when "Print Preview" is > selected the normal browser window disappears and is replaced with a new > window to show the preview. This is not instantaneous. The WHATWG takes > notice of real-world browsers does it not? Of course, but it is critical that we don't remove the possibility for innovation in UI design. See, for instance, the great lengths I do to in the window.history section to avoid requiring the UA to have a linear history UI. We could have just said it had to be linear and mapped the history button straight onto window.history; after all there is no browser worth speaking of that does non-linear history. But then we'd have blocked important UI potential. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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