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Subject: Re: [wsrp] Request for a "popup" windowstate
Can you provide more specifics? The complications with pop-ups vs other window states is that developers commonly want this to be a second view of the portlet -- I.e. the pop-up renders along with the portlet in the page vs. it being a tear-off UI. This complicates things because I believe we should help facilitate state management if we add such support. State management is more complicated because you now need to manage multiple mode states in a single state record. -Mike- Rich Thompson wrote: > > We have heard back from portlet developers that a valuable UI > technique they find missing in WSRP is the ability to request that > activation of a url result in showing a portlet in a popup window. > Common examples on the web today include: > > * Popup window shows a "printer-friendly" view on the portlet's > markup (often missing ads, navigation menus and extraneous > graphics) > * Help ... both related to the portlet's functionality and a > glossary style definition of terms > * More sophisticated scenarios like showing an address book to set > email recipients (I know both Yahoo and Excite do this) > > > Some more sophisticated scenarios use references to a different > portlet, but I think reaching a consensus on how to do that with > remote portlets within the v2 timeframe is unreasonable. I do think it > would be reasonable to define a "popup" windowstate in v2 with the > restriction that the portlet to be shown in the popup is the one whose > markup contains the url causing the popup. > > Rich
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