- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 15:33:08 -0400
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Cc: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org, w3c-wai-pf@w3.org
At 03:02 PM 8/25/99 -0400, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: > >So I think I'm close to agreeing that the user needs to be able to say "no, >don't open a new window. Does this mean "force the new window content into >this window instead"? Or "forget it"? which is what happens in lynx when I am >reading a page written by some clown who thinks >javascript:popout_window('some_uri') is a URI. (Should we specify an answer >to that question at all?) > >Charles McCN > I think that the ideal answer is that the structure for indexing currently open processes is part of the desktop, not the kernel. Then the user has a prayer of recalling how it works. Emacs and screen are close what one would do in speech; I have not read Raman's book to see how much he develops this topic. One option in the above scenario is "pop it on the stack" a_la what has been considered in SMIL: current process suspends and resumes when added process terminates, all if the user OKs. Al
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