"Chrome"

During our f2f, the discussion about "chrome - what is it" came up again. 
The discussion was part of going over "Poorly defined role for chrome". It 
was a divergence at the time, so we decided to take the discussion to the 
list. See: 
http://www.w3.org/2007/01/30-wsc-minutes.html
"what is chrome? diaglog boxes should be included"

We'll need the definition of Chrome for the Glossary that Tim is pulling 
together as well. 

What I mean to mean by Chrome are the parts of the window that include 
information that the User agent/Browser is trying to communicate to the 
user, vs the parts where the browser is (expected to) faithfully represent 
what the web site/page is trying to communicate to the user. Some areas in 
some browsers currently contain both (for example, the title area 
including both the HTML title and browser identity information). 

Anyone else have a better definition? 

I also remember people getting fixated on the word. If the word itself is 
getting in the way of a concept we consider important, then we can start 
using some other word which we can all agree on. So this might instead be 
an exercise where we agree on the concept first, then agree on the word 
we'll use. 


[ACTION-132 - Start discussion on mailing list to draw chrome items out 
and get analysis completed [on Mary Ellen Zurko - due 2007-02-13].]

          Mez

Mary Ellen Zurko, STSM, IBM Lotus CTO Office       (t/l 333-6389)
Lotus/WPLC Security Strategy and Patent Innovation Architect