In one hypothetical reality, the RSS icon could be implemented as one of these "super bookmarklets" (as could any number of other page-state-specific notification icons).
-Ben On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Ian Fette <[email protected]> wrote: > Is the RSS icon in the screenshot there just a holdover from your doing this > and the feeds discussion at the same time? I would assume yes, but I wanted > to make sure that I wasn't missing something. > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Peter Kasting <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Nick Baum <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I've posted a document that describes how we could better support >>> bookmarklets: >>> >>> http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/user-experience/bookmarklets >>> >>> Let me know if you have any feedback! >> >> From a UI/mock perspective, the chevron reminds me of the Windows Quick >> Launch bar chevron, and I would expect things to work similarly: >> * The chevron only appears when there are more icons hiding >> * All items in the dropdown menu get an icon (we give ones without one a >> default "page" icon a la tabs with no favicon -- this also sidesteps your >> comment about only being able to promote bookmarklets with icons) >> * I can easily make this area bigger/smaller or manage the icons in it and >> its dropdown (you allude to this at the end as a possibility, I would want >> it for sure, probably via drag-and-drop; and I would want to be able to move >> things from the main bar into the dropdown, not just the other way) >> I suggest "Delete" instead of "Remove..." for consistency with Windows UI. >> It would be nice to support dragging bookmarklets to the bookmarks bar >> since that is what people expect in current browsers. If we want to enforce >> a single point of UI access for them, we could then animate the bookmarklet >> "flying" over to the chevron and blink the chevron or something. We should >> also think about how the UX will work when importing bookmarklets from other >> browsers. >> A la the search boxes of Fx 2+ and IE 7+, we could subtly highlight the >> chevron when on a page that provides some bookmarklets the user doesn't >> have, and/or append a section to the bottom of the dropdown like "Add <xxx>" >> where <xxx> is a bookmarklet the page contains. >> PK >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
