162596 - Split Window Browsing

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 172533

(Camino Graveyard :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Jason Knox]

I don't know if this has ever been done, but I had the idea the it would be
cool to be able to spit a browser window in half (or whatever % you
wanted)

A good example of what I mean can be found in AppleWorks (V. 6 for sure,
I think earlier also - I don't know if other word processors do this as well)

Just above the vertical scroll bar there is a small rectangle the width of the
scroll bar and just a few pixels high.  There is another small rectangle at
the left of the horizontal scroll bar.  By dragging either one of these
rectangles you effectively divide your document in 2. (or 3, 4, 6, or 9)

AppleWorks allows 2 horizontal spits and 2 vertical splits, but I would
think that for a browser 1 spit horizontally OR 1 spit vertically would be
enough.  (so you can spit either way, but not both)

This would, in effect, be like creating your own frames.  I could see
keeping a list of headlines in a small section at the top of my browser,
then when I click a headline it loads the page in the lower part of the
window, and leaves the list of headlines there.

I have a mockup of the idea here: 
http://homepage.mac.com/jasonknox/chimera/split.html

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

I think this feature might be better suited to Mozilla than Chimera. Basically
it's asking for user-invokable frames.

Comment 2

[Max Horn]

I also don't think this should be added to Chimera. Maybe to Mozilla, but 
not to Chimera.

Essentially, this feature is sort of a mixture between adding a new tab and 
opening a new window, but I don't think it would anything valuable 
compared  to these two features.

Chimera should stay lean & mean, if we add every feature that somebody 
wants, we end up with the same bloatware in the end.

Just my two cents :-)

Comment 3

[Greg K.]

*** Bug 172533 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Sören 'Chucker' Kuklau (gone)]

Having an additional bug on a slightly different implementation of the same
thing will only make it less likely to be implemented.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 172533 ***

Comment 5

[Nick Bebout]

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