The sheet approach or the sheet-look approach? I like the sheet-look approach, but Cocoa sheets are window-modal, which I don't think is all that cool given how we use tabs (or want to use tabs).
Mark Ben Goodger (Google) wrote: > 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. > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
