On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 04:05:31AM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > * jrod...@hate.spamportal.net <jrod...@hate.spamportal.net> [2006-10-20 > 00:35]: > > So you want the ability open up a new window without the > > familiar interface, that has an intuitive element to return the > > interface. > > Precisely. > > > I think our ideas of intuitve and obvious diverged somewhere in > > the woods. (Although any sort of bone would be better than the > > current situation). > > The browser chrome takes a lot of space. For some transient web > app UI aspects, it's nice to be able to pop them up in a small > window. Popups of the > > <a onclick="return popup(this.href,350,150)" ... > > variety are certainly more accessible than any DOM trickery and > AJAX dreck, and effortlessly compatible across browsers. Used > with restraint, they are a very useful tool. > > Since there is an evident lack of such restraint, I also want it > to be dead easy to overrule the script author.
My point was just: after the familiar interface has been removed from the user, how will 'bring back what I know!!!' be intuitive? That is all. I'm sure one could mitigate the problem, but it is a stumbling block. -josh
