I remember Nicholas saying he thought it'd be possible to fabricate a
non-modal sheet like thing.
-Ben
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Mark Mentovai <m...@chromium.org> wrote:
> The sheet approach or the sheet-look approach?
>
> I like the sheet-look approach, but Cocoa sheets are window-modal,
> which I don't think is all that cool given how we use tabs (or want to
> use tabs).
>
> Mark
>
> Ben Goodger (Google) wrote:
>> The sheet approach sounds fine to me for Mac dialogs. Note also that
>> anything you do should not become app-modal when the tab is selected.
>>
>> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Avi Drissman <a...@google.com> wrote:
>>> Having signed up for the login dialog, I'm seeing that it's a pretty
>>> interesting subject. If you try out a page with HTTP auth, you'll see that
>>> you get what looks like a dialog for the username and password. But if you
>>> click around, you find that you can switch tabs, and that the dialog is
>>> tab-modal. In fact, the UI test has a test (LoginPromptTest.TestTwoAuths) to
>>> make sure that you can have two auths going on at once.
>>>
>>> I was thinking about doing this as a sheet, but that's window-modal and of
>>> less functionality. I can play games with dialogs (making them child windows
>>> and/or hiding/showing along with the tab) but that gets to be less Mac/like.
>>>
>>> As I type this I wonder if we can get a sheet to come down under the tab bar
>>> and hide/show it with the tab. Would that be good UI-wise?
>>>
>>> And of course, I'd probably retrofit the file picker to do that too.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> Avi
>>>
>>> >>>
>>>
>>
>
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