Windows Media player has the ability to show WMP in a "Windowed" mode
or non-windowed mode.

Ever notice how the in-browser apps for Google docs look kind of
strange in that there are TWO menu bars (when you view it in Firefox,
that is)?  One for the browser, and one for the Google docs
application.  This is just looks plain ugly and redundant...not to
mention the fact that it makes the actual usable area of the
application smaller than it should be.

So, my suggestion is to put into Chrome the ability to hide the
browser, such that only the application is showing...i.e., show Google
docs (or maybe some web-app based media player) in a "non-windowed"
view.

The ultimate trick, though, would be to allow the browser to hide for
not only applications that are rectangular, but ones that have much
more complex shapes, too!  I think that one of the major annoyances I
have with web-apps is that they must run inside of a browser window.
If Chrome could somehow make it appear that it is not in a browser by
simply hiding the browser...that would be awesome!  Of course, just
like WMP, you could make it so that if you hover over the top left
corner of the app for a couple of seconds, the browser would appear.

Anywho...I think this would be a very critical step in developing web-
apps...as it would give them the feel of regular apps.  I can tell you
now that unless web-app based apps can at least look as if they have
ditched the browser, I don't think they'll be as popular as actual
desktop apps.

I'm a .Net developer...a beginner that is...so my suggestion is that
perhaps there can be a standard added to the HTML standard (or
something like this) such that you can specify a vector graphics
outline of your app, and perhaps the web browser can interpret it, and
set the outline for the app in non-windowed mode.

I dunno...there could be better ways of doing this.
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