Experimenting with HTML5 and native controls
THIS IS AN EXPERIMENT.
Little screencast:
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Alex Faaborg recently published some mockups for "Site Specific Browsers":
I thought it would be a good idea to extend this concept. So here is an idea:
- A webpage should be able to expose native controls to the UA
- A webpage, if considered as a Web App, should be able to get rid of the URL / Back Forward Tool bar
- A webpage should be able to expose controls to the context menu
And I think the menu specification could help. I doesn't fit perfectly my needs. But here is a way to implement this idea:
<menu type=application> is a menu accessible from the UA menu bar
- A
<html> attribute would hide the native toolbar. The page would be in charge of creating a menu.
<menu type=context> is menu that should be injected into the native context menu
type=toolbar could be used to override the native toolbar, but website already have toolbars (think twitter, facebook).
I don't see any clean ways to use, in a progressive-enhancement manner, this toolbar. I prefer an attribute.
type=application is not part of the specification.
I wrote a little JetPack (restart-less) extension to experiment with this idea. You can test it with this web app.
This brings a lot of questions. What about security? What about type=toolbar? Should the app button be persistent? What if there several app buttons?
What about styling the menuitems? Should we do that only for app tabs? What about prism-like web apps?
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