Part of the reason we put the pager data within the output area was that we
didn't want that "popup" experience and people seemed to like having it
inline. We then faced, exactly as you put it, a lack of reproducibility of
the notebook - people wanted to see that "output" of documentation right
there.

On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Brian Granger <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> For a while, the ipython kernel has had a flag that lets you send
> payload message to regular output. I have run my ipython with this
> enabled for a long time. In talking with Kyle this weekend, nteract
> has decided to always render payloads as output.
>
> I would like to propose that we start to do the same in the classic
> notebook and jupyterlab.
>
> The reasons are these:
>
> * If you have a cell with a ? ("math.cos?") no-one can see the result
> of running that code in the notebook document (on github, nbviewer).
> This means that the notebook isn't really reproducible.
> * In JupyterLab, outputs can be dragged anywhere in the dock panel.
> Thus, if you want the separate pager like experience we can still
> offer it.
> * The existing inspector in juptyerlab is overly complicated. This
> would allow it to just focus on tooltips as the user types.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brian
>
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> Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
> @ellisonbg on Twitter and GitHub
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