On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Peter Kasting <pkast...@chromium.org>wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Nick Baum <nickb...@chromium.org> wrote:
>
>> Dragging bookmarklets to the bookmarks bar would work the same way as it
>> does now; I think it'd be confusing to do something fancy here.
>>
>
> Wait, so you can have bookmarklets on your bookmarks bar, or in this other
> special area? Are they different somehow? This seems confusing.
>
We're not going to prevent users from dragging javascript links to the
bookmarks bar, and I would argue that doing something fancy here will be
confusing. My hope is that dragging bookmarklets to the omnibox will be the
better place for them.
>
>
>> I had something like this in my first draft of this, but someone pointed
>> out that people could use this to spam the UI ("Install the free p0rn
>> bookmarklet!"). Arguably this is also true of existing feed subscription
>> mechanisms, and hasn't occured there, so maybe that's a non-issue.
>>
>
> This has been a non-issue in search boxes, which have had this for a couple
> years, so I think we can just do it. The UI that's always visible changes
> in a nonobtrusive way, and users have to explicitly open the chevron to see
> newly-proposed bookmarklets.
>
I tend to agree, I'll revisit this.
>
> PK
>
> >
>
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