Features/Tabs In Browse

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Summary

Pages to be opened in new windows are opened now in a small popup window without any controls. This feature opens those pages in a new tab inside the activity window.

Owner

Current status

  • Targeted release: 0.86
  • Last updated: July 6th 2009
  • Percentage of completion: 50%

Detailed Description

New pages will open in a new tab similarly to other browsers, though this feature isn't proposing any way for the user to explicitly open any link in a new tab.

Benefit to Sugar

Some sites expect that new pages will open in a window with the same navigation capabilities of the main window. Currently those sites break when new pages are open in dialog-like windows.

Scope

It requires changes in the Browse activity and in Hulahop (which is only used currently by Browse).

How To Test

Go to a web page with links that open in new windows and check that after clicking on such a link, a new tab is created and the new page loaded there. Switch between tabs and check that the address bar changes accordingly and the buttons affect the current tab.

User Experience

Links that used to open in a new window will open in a new tab inside the main window.

Dependencies

The maintainer of Hulahop and Browse need to accept the patches.

Contingency Plan

None necessary, revert to previous release behaviour.

Documentation

None other than this page.

Release Notes

Links that would open in a new window now open in new tabs inside the main activity window, so they don't loose the toolbar, nor notifications, etc.

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