At 06:03 PM 3/23/01 -0800, WJCarpenter wrote:
>The overall idea would be to disable stuff that is of the most help to
>authors (but which could otherwise be distracting) and enable stuff
>that is of help to readers. (Disable/enable aren't exactly the
>correct words here.) Whether or not doing all that under the covers
>adds up to a "mode" is not a deep-seated engineering question, I
>think.
>
>Possibilities...
>
>* spell check, grammar check, sanity check (ooops :-)
>* horizontal and vertical rulers and visible tab markers
>* some subset of toolbars
>
>I'm not suggesting we in any way lock down a document to keep a
>recipient from changing it. (That's a sometimes-useful but unrelated
>feature.) They could always trivially toggle things back into author
>mode (which is just re-jiggling the per-document preferences, perhaps
>mediated by their own personal preferences).
Gotcha. It'd be some sort of master "hush" switch, which got most of the
visible UI stuff out of the way so you could just focus on reading.
Basically a convenience feature which temporarily toggled a whole bunch of
settings at once. A similar example would be Dom's View / Full Screen
feature, which changes the display without affecting the underlying settings
for individual toolbars, etc.
You'll note that I continue to avoid the notion of per-document preferences,
but I do think I see where you're coming from.
Paul
