Re: a web-browser UI concept

[Rogelio Serrano]

On 3/1/07, Camille Bourgoin <jeanbaptiste.bourgoin@gmail.com> wrote:

> 1) the toolbar is separated from the document window. When you gather
> two documents together and the toolbar is integrated with the document
> : two toolbars (two window) became one toolbar => two documents became
> one document. This is an application oriented application.
>
> With the model in my mind (not very useful, I know ;) ) the document
> who are gather with another one, is just "behind" the other document.

Thats actually right. Although the number of windows would soon become
unwieldy. thats why i prefer non-overlapping window ui's. A linear
display  is more manageable.

> 2) this is the reason why the Edit action act only on the document
> who are selected. When you click on another document (even if it is
> gather with it), you return to the navigation mode. Go back to the
> edited document, and you are in edition mode etc. I don't know if it
> is possible :(

This is an artifact of overlapping windows.

> 3) back and forward are seperated from documents because they are
> your hands who turn the pages. And we haven't 10 hands ;)

Thats right actually.

> Thank you for your comments ! They are very very interesting.
>
> I hope my franchglish is understandable !
>
>
> >> The article is in french, but the sketches are in english (I'm not
> >> very good in english, sorry :( )
> >>
> >
> > Nous sommes une bonne équipe, parce que je ne comprends pas un mot de
> > français ;-).
> >
>
> Ce projet serait-il un refuge de francophone ??  Encore merci pour
> toutes tes remarques. J'espère y avoir répondues correctement.
>
>
> Salut
>
>
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