Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Browse PDF handling

2012-02-16 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Daniel, On 15 Feb 2012, at 22:29, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: 2012/2/2 Manuel Quiñones ma...@laptop.org: I'm proposing, for the new and fresh Browse wearing WebKit, the following behaviour when clicking on a link to a PDF: - the PDF is shown in a new tab, next to the current -

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Browse PDF handling

2012-02-15 Thread Manuel Quiñones
Hi Anish, El día 14 de febrero de 2012 13:30, Anish Mangal an...@sugarlabs.org escribió: Hi Manuel, I think (as I pointed out in todays development meetings[1]), that this proposed behavior is somewhat of a regression (over browse 129 atleast) In v129 to view a pdf, I first have to save it

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Browse PDF handling

2012-02-15 Thread Daniel Drake
2012/2/2 Manuel Quiñones ma...@laptop.org: I'm proposing, for the new and fresh Browse wearing WebKit, the following behaviour when clicking on a link to a PDF: - the PDF is shown in a new tab, next to the current - basic document navigation is provided to the user - as well, a button to

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Browse PDF handling

2012-02-14 Thread Anish Mangal
Hi Manuel, I think (as I pointed out in todays development meetings[1]), that this proposed behavior is somewhat of a regression (over browse 129 atleast) In v129 to view a pdf, I first have to save it to the journal, which it might be seen an impediment to have to save content before viewing

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Browse PDF handling

2012-02-03 Thread Manuel Quiñones
Hi S Page, El día 3 de febrero de 2012 03:00, S Page skierp...@gmail.com escribió: 2012/2/2 Manuel Quiñones ma...@laptop.org: Am I overlooking something?  Comments? Sounds good. But Browse already works similar to this on an XO-1 running 11.3.0. E.g. open a PDF Collection from the  OLPC

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Browse PDF handling

2012-02-03 Thread Manuel Quiñones
El día 2 de febrero de 2012 10:05, Samuel Greenfeld greenf...@laptop.org escribió: Something to watch out for is that many websites already like to open a separate tab or window for PDF documents, sometimes via Javascript and sometimes by setting the target frame/window. Sometimes these sites

[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Browse PDF handling

2012-02-02 Thread Manuel Quiñones
I'm proposing, for the new and fresh Browse wearing WebKit, the following behaviour when clicking on a link to a PDF: - the PDF is shown in a new tab, next to the current - basic document navigation is provided to the user - as well, a button to save to Journal is provided Using the save to

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Browse PDF handling

2012-02-02 Thread Walter Bender
2012/2/2 Manuel Quiñones ma...@laptop.org: I'm proposing, for the new and fresh Browse wearing WebKit, the following behaviour when clicking on a link to a PDF: - the PDF is shown in a new tab, next to the current - basic document navigation is provided to the user - as well, a button to

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Browse PDF handling

2012-02-02 Thread Samuel Greenfeld
Something to watch out for is that many websites already like to open a separate tab or window for PDF documents, sometimes via Javascript and sometimes by setting the target frame/window. Sometimes these sites directly link the PDF file; other times they attempt to include it inline. If we

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Browse PDF handling

2012-02-02 Thread S Page
2012/2/2 Manuel Quiñones ma...@laptop.org: Am I overlooking something?  Comments? Sounds good. But Browse already works similar to this on an XO-1 running 11.3.0. E.g. open a PDF Collection from the OLPC Library home page such as Big Cats or Activity Handbook, and it opens in Browse in the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Browse PDF handling

2012-02-02 Thread S Page
I wrote: Somehow I've gotten PDFs to show in the Journal, and from there I Resume with Read for a better reading experience. I think that was back when clicking a PDF in Browse (even in ~/Library) would download it into the Journal. When I tried to do this with 11.3.0 I ran into a strange