Re: "Chrome"

Yngve, in your example, you are referring to the concrete notion of 
chrome as window dressing, not the semantic notion of chrome as the UI 
controlled by the browser.   I think we should either kill the word 
chrome altogether from our vocabulary, or alternatively, use chrome to 
just mean window dressing concrete form.

I collapsing Mez's extractions down to three definitions:

    window chrome -- visual elements used by Desktop browsers or the OS
    window manager to surround the web page

    user-agent user interface elements -- any user interface
    presentation controlled explicitly by the browser and not under
    direct web page control

    markup user interface elements --  the user interface elements
    specified by the web page. Based on web page content, displayed in
    some fashion to the user, through the web user agent.

In Yngve's example, widgets do not have "window chrome" as the browser 
and the OS do not surround the web page content with any visual elements. 

--Brad

Yngve N. Pettersen (Developer Opera Software ASA) wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:46:28 +0100, Mary Ellen Zurko 
> <Mary_Ellen_Zurko@notesdev.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> "Chrome"  : the user interface elements provided by the web user agent.
>> Equivalent to "semantic chrome". Chrome can come from whatever software
>> gives the user feedback on their web experience; browser, rich 
>> client, OS,
>> plugins, etc. Dialogs would go here, as an example.
>> "Content" : data elements provided by the web page.
>>
>> Parts of chrome are populated with content, but not all of the chrome is
>> populated with content.
>
> There may be one exception: Widgets. AFAIK Wigdets, at least as 
> implemented in Opera does not provide any Opera generated "chrome", 
> the widget itself provide all the "chrome".
>
>
> --Sincerely,
> Yngve N. Pettersen
>  
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