On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 17:28, Brad <[email protected]> wrote: > > > We have an issue with a site wanting to remain in app mode. At the > time being there is no method to open a new window in that mode from > the page (no Window.Open) and they use a multi-document interface. > The work around would be to navigate instead of opening a new window. > However, they do not want to change their interface for all browsers. > > For the time being, until a HTML5 App spec and associated DOM > extensions are proposed, would it be possible to either > > 1) Append text to the user-agent string > 2) Send a header from the browser > 3) Expose a boolean readonly property to the dom (say the Window > object) where a user can query whether or not they are in app mode > ( either Window.Application mode or possible Window.AddressBar ) > > We would like to do (3). Is this possible?
I think 3 is fine, but I'm not really someone who should be approving such changes. Other browsers have added properties to window.navigator to signal application state (see Firefox and navigator.onLine: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.navigator.onLine). --Mark > > > -brad > > On Jan 7, 5:07 pm, Peter Kasting <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Brian Rakowski <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > There's not currently, but we have considered it several times. I don't > > > remember any arguments against it other than we weren't sure if it was > going > > > to be necessary. > > > > The main argument against it (IIRC) was that we were concerned web > > developers might discriminate against users in various ways, i.e. refuse > to > > run their site if the user was in app (or not in app) mode. Not sure > that's > > a big deal. > > > > PK > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
