Re: Uber Page Info Window (Was: Re: [chromium-dev] Re: [DESIGN DOC] registerProtocolHandler HTML5 API)

2009-09-29 Thread Evan Martin
I'd like to suggest early on that it's done in HTML for the usual reasons. (And also that there are the usual negatives. Just wanna plant the seed.) In particular, a meta-page page would allow the typical operations on subresource links (click to view; media playing would work in-browser;

Re: Uber Page Info Window (Was: Re: [chromium-dev] Re: [DESIGN DOC] registerProtocolHandler HTML5 API)

2009-09-29 Thread Dimitri Glazkov
Good point on HTML. Why not instead make DevTools better/faster/do-what-you-want-them-to-do? :DG On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Evan Martin e...@chromium.org wrote: I'd like to suggest early on that it's done in HTML for the usual reasons.  (And also that there are the usual negatives.  

Re: Uber Page Info Window (Was: Re: [chromium-dev] Re: [DESIGN DOC] registerProtocolHandler HTML5 API)

2009-09-29 Thread Ben Goodger (Google)
Depends if we want it to feel webby or dialoggy. Unsure yet. Good case for either way. Will keep it in mind. -Ben On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Evan Martin e...@chromium.org wrote: I'd like to suggest early on that it's done in HTML for the usual reasons.  (And also that there are the

Re: Uber Page Info Window (Was: Re: [chromium-dev] Re: [DESIGN DOC] registerProtocolHandler HTML5 API)

2009-09-28 Thread Nick Baum
I agree that this comes up often enough that it's probably worth doing. The opportunities for extensions that you mention are also interesting. I don't see how this would make it into 4.0, but maybe something to prioritize for 5.0? Out of curiosity, you've historically been opposed to any kind of

Re: Uber Page Info Window (Was: Re: [chromium-dev] Re: [DESIGN DOC] registerProtocolHandler HTML5 API)

2009-09-28 Thread Robert Sesek
For reference: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=5973 I'd be interested in helping out with this on the Mac side. I filed a Camino bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297376 a couple of years ago about something similar. Safari has a helpful tool in Window --

Uber Page Info Window (Was: Re: [chromium-dev] Re: [DESIGN DOC] registerProtocolHandler HTML5 API)

2009-09-25 Thread Ben Goodger (Google)
BTW I should note what I mean by Uber Page Info Window. For some time, we've talked about improving the page info window in Chrome. Right now it shows only the security information for a SSL page. In the future we'd like to extend this to show other information. The idea is there'd be a few tabs