On Jul 4, 12:41 pm, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > For another example, look at where web browsers are going. By your > description, one instance of a browser should work with precisely one > "document" (which in this case would be a web page). That's how > browsers were in the early days, but by the early 2000s most browsers > had some form of tabs, letting you keep that application in one > window.
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. > I currently have precisely two slots in mindspace for web browsers: > Chrome and Firefox. Chrome currently has about a dozen tabs up; > Firefox about the same, but most of them are long-term status reports > that I keep handy. If I had to have 20-30 separate windows, I would > not be able to use alt-tab to find the one I want, but would have to > use some other kind of "window picker". 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. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
