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Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 07:43:55 +1000
Subject: Re: Implicit initialization is EVIL!
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 5:30 AM, rantingrick <rantingrick@gmail.com> wrote:
> Umm, if you want to see where things are "going" you should learn
> about the inner workings of chrome which actually spawns a new process
> for every tab created; which has the benefit of avoiding application
> lock up when one page decides to crash.

There is still one application. There's a single process which is the
master; all the other processes die if the master dies. Chrome's
isolation of tab-groups has nothing to do with the GUI design question
of whether one top-level window is allowed to do more than one thing,
which you claimed it should not.

>> How would you write a
>> user-friendly picker that can cope with myriad instances of
>> everything?
>
> psst: it's called a notebook in GUI jargon. Again, study up on chrome
> internals.

No, that would not be what it would be called. Also, a notebook is a
very specific widget, and it's not quite identical to Chrome's or
Firefox's tabbed browsing setup; but again, that has nothing to do
with the case. The question is one of UI design.

ChrisA