- From: Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen <hallvord@hallvord.com>
- Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 14:07:31 +0200
- To: Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen <hallvord@hallvord.com>, Karl Pongratz <karlhp@karlhp.com>
- CC: Sanghyeon Seo <sanxiyn@gmail.com>, whatwg@whatwg.org, www-forms@w3.org
On 1 Jul 2005 at 13:27, Karl Pongratz wrote: > >click "edit" in my fancy address book application, a modal window pops > >up, I want to go to the tab where my E-mail lives to copy the address I > >wanted to put in my address book and ... ouch, can't get to the E-mail > >because I use an integrated browser/mail client application and the modal > >dialog blocks access to all the tabs. > If you want to copy an email address you will have a problem with any web > app I think, traditional and Ajax based once. Perhaps you misunderstood that? I as a user expect to be able to switch between tabs to copy and paste information between different pages. A modal dialog breaks that. > If you want to do that in a > nice way you may need to use at least chromeless windows, yet you could > use modal windows from the already opened chromeless windows, then you can > access your main page even if a modal window is active. I see, you expect your app to live in a window of its own and not in a tab. Only to get rid of browser UI like back button and address bar? LOL, I'm your web app's user from hell, I routinely duplicate windows to go back in history and see what I wrote and if I use IE and you open a poup without address bar I view properties and copy the address just to get my normal UI back. I know it is hard to keep up with such behaviour from the backend, but I expect your app to manage. Is it possible to keep the two discussions chromeless windows and modal dialogs separate, please? -- Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen http://www.hallvord.com/
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