Perhaps the work Charlie is doing could help here. Linus
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Brian Ellis <[email protected]> wrote: > > I may be repeating what Peter said to some extent, but unless I'm > missing something (and I may well be), the browser's security model > should prevent pages from referring to each other via JavaScript > across domain boundaries... so if the "page-modal" dialog also > "locked" all other tabs in the same tab group (which, as I understand > it, is defined as those tabs which share a domain) by graying out the > tab or otherwise indicating that it's unavailable, we could get 95% of > the way there with 5% of the headaches. It would be awesome if we > could perform some kind of analysis to determine that certain tabs are > independent of the locked page and not gray out those, but that seems > like a lot of work for not much extra benefit. The main thing here is > that user should not have to respond to the alert before they're > allowed to look at another page on a completely different domain; > anything that gets us that is, in my opinion, worth the time spent to > make it happen. > > Brian > > On Dec 16, 4:00 pm, Peter Kasting <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Darin Fisher <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I don't understand what tab-group-modal UI would be like. > > > > That is fair, I don't have a good idea either. I assumed something like > dim > > the page and/or put the alert window (using a ConstrainedWindow) over > each > > page in the group, but there are obvious downsides to that. > > > > I'd prefer to do something like auto-cancel alerts that originate from > > > > > background tabs. Maybe use an alternate, non-modal UI to present the > alert > > > text in case that is interesting. > > > > That seems promising. The first thing I think of for "alternate UI" is > some > > sort of taskbar notification toast or something, but there are probably > > other possibilities too. > > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
