It is only incredibly painful if you mix in the link in with other words in the middle of a sentence, like I had to do with the About box. If you, instead, have a link below the main text (like the mock shows) it is dead simple and easy. I don't see why you should avoid using Link in that case.
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 00:14, Aaron Boodman <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Ben Goodger (Google)<[email protected]> > wrote: > > I actually don't like having a mix of HTML/native UIs in the product. > > When we switched to the NTP from the old Destinations page we made the > > decision to have the content of tabs feel webby and the content of > > dialogs feel dialoggy. > > > > As a result the NTP now feels pleasantly webby, but many of the HTML > > dialogs don't feel dialoggy (focus issues, key accelerators, etc). > > This is why I decided to go with native for the install dialog. > > I feel like doing this the way that the about dialog is done would be > incredibly painful and buggy because of wrapping issues. Also, at > least on my machine (I am one of those weirdos that uses vista with > the classic theme), the about dialog does not look right. The > alignment of the links is slightly off. > > I would prefer to use the platform APIs that already know how to do > this correctly. I'm thinking of adding something like > set_bold_delimiter(const std::string&) on Label. You could use it like > this: > > myLabel->set_bold_delimiter("*"); > myLabel->set_text("hello *world*"); > > Is this totally lame? > > - a > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
