Konqueror 4 webbrowsing UI

George Staikos staikos at kde.org
Fri Nov 25 19:18:41 GMT 2005


On Thursday 24 November 2005 13:44, Bert Bos wrote:
> > 1) URL bar is now permanent and unremovable
> > 2) Statusbar is permanent and unremovable
>
> That's good, but I hope there is also a full-screen mode (for slide show
> projections) in which there is no chrome at all?

  I doubt it.  That opens so many phishing issues...  Imagine a web app that 
looks just like your desktop and pops up a password prompt.

> Shouldn't the "Location" menu be called "File" to be consistent with
> other applications?

  Not really, Konqueror browses much more than just files.

> W3C has a document, affectively known as CUAP, that is a checklist of
> common problems in browsers. Not all of them affect the UI and the
> current Konqueror nicely handles most of them, but it is good to check
> that list whenever the UI changes, to see if nothing is forgotten:
>
>     http://www.w3.org/TR/cuap
>
> (The document is not a W3C specification, just a W3C Note.)

  Thanks for the note!

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