Comments on: Modern Browser Features

By: Mauriat

Mauriat — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 02:33:28 +0000

Interesting thing about MDI support. Ignore Mac and Windows for second … Mozilla (FF, etc) is built with GTK in Linux. Currently GTK itself does not support MDI (stupid, I know). So I would think that this alone would cause a great deal of trouble. Even if they wanted to support it, they would have problems on Linux.

By: Jeff Schiller

Jeff Schiller — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 15:29:55 +0000

Thanks Tarquin. Yes, I’m aware you can do something close to Split View in Opera using MDI, and it’s good to know that Konq does it too. But it’s hardly as easy/intuitive as simply dragging that little widget down in Word/Excel.

By: TarquinWJ

TarquinWJ — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 17:06:13 +0000

Re: Split view,

Konqueror has had split panes for a long time (not quite the same … but). Load a page and copy its address. Window – split view. click in the empty pane, and paste the address into the location field.

Opera can do something similar using its MDI.
First time only, you need to enable MDI;
Tools – prefs – advanced – tabs – untick ‘show close button on each tab’
Tools – prefs – advanced – browsing – show window menu
Window – minimise all (if the page is the only tab you have open, you can skip this step).
New tab & open the page you want (or just focus the tab if it was already loaded in a tab).
Window – duplicate.
You should now have two tabs that are not minimised – any others that are open will be minimised (although you probably can’t see that).
Window – tile vertically (only the tabs that are not minimised will tile).

Ok, it’s not really the same as split view because any changes in one pane are not visible in the other, but it works for many purposes.

By: stelt

stelt — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:10:40 +0000

I filed an RFE about MDI (without knowing the acronym) for Mozilla once. Thanks for telling me Opera does it (and Mozilla is not even planning on it). Mozilla should do xml:id, MDI and SVG 1.2 and give its SVG developers some extra hand$. There are a couple of Firefox extensions i can’t do without. I promote both browsers.