[Camino] [SOC] Improvements to the Camino tabbed-browsing experience

[Sebastian Winkler]

Hi Desmond!

Only elaborating on aforementioned ideas, here's what I would love to  
see:

Dragging tabs to a new window
A tab dragged outside the current window (and not onto a different  
one) should create its own new window, as done by OmniWeb. Sort of  
the drag'n'drop version of the context menu entry "Move Tab to New  
Window".

Reordering tabs
The feedback should be similar to that of moving objects within the  
Dock or when customizing a Toolbar: the other objects elegantly  
making way for the new arriver. And maybe holding Cmd could toggle  
the Replace Tab mode instead.

Dragging tabs (in general)
Personally, I wouldn't mind at all if the whole tab, not just the  
favicon, would serve as handle.

Happy coding!!! :)

Cheers,
Sebastian


On 27.05.2006, at 9:43, Desmond Elliott wrote:

> Hello, I am Camino's Summer of Code student. I have been accepted  
> by the
> Mozilla Foundation to overhaul the current tabbed-browsing code  
> this summer.
> As such, this is a request for features post. I will probably  
> prefix all of
> my posts with [SOC] so they can be easily identified.
>
> I would like you to reply to this topic every zany, inventive,  
> interesting
> idea that you've ever had about tabbed-browsing, or that you've  
> ever wanted
> to see in a tabbed-browsing environment and we (the rest of the  
> developers)
> will decide if anything suggested should be implemented.
>
> My original proposal:
> http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/~s0128959/SummerofCodeProposal.pdf (some
> people have complained that the quality of this document is poor,  
> I'm not
> sure what happened with the pdftex typeset in TeXShop, but I shall be
> converting it to an html file soon.)
>
> My Summer of Code Blog where you can keep an eye on my progress  
> this summer:
> http://desmondelliott.blogspot.com
>
> This message has also been sent to the MozillaZine forum
> http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=420514 for feedback.  
> Smokey
> Ardisson recommended that I post it to both the forum and the  
> mailing-list
> because they cater to different users.
>
> I hope to see some great ideas that might work with what I am  
> trying to do.
>
> Desmond Elliott
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