The sheet approach sounds fine to me for Mac dialogs. Note also that anything you do should not become app-modal when the tab is selected.
-Ben On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Avi Drissman <[email protected]> wrote: > Having signed up for the login dialog, I'm seeing that it's a pretty > interesting subject. If you try out a page with HTTP auth, you'll see that > you get what looks like a dialog for the username and password. But if you > click around, you find that you can switch tabs, and that the dialog is > tab-modal. In fact, the UI test has a test (LoginPromptTest.TestTwoAuths) to > make sure that you can have two auths going on at once. > > I was thinking about doing this as a sheet, but that's window-modal and of > less functionality. I can play games with dialogs (making them child windows > and/or hiding/showing along with the tab) but that gets to be less Mac/like. > > As I type this I wonder if we can get a sheet to come down under the tab bar > and hide/show it with the tab. Would that be good UI-wise? > > And of course, I'd probably retrofit the file picker to do that too. > > Thoughts? > > Avi > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
