212815 - Composer should use tabbox for document views

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, defect)

Description

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

There's a lot of code, particularly in editor.js, for switching between views of
a document.  Three of the four current tabs use a single pseudo-panel, and
there's really no flexibility for adding additional panels (as bug 109682 would
have me do).

I'm filing this bug to ask for a rewrite of the code handling how Mozilla
Composer switches from one view of a document to another, for extensibility and
reuse of the XUL tabbox widget.  Bug 209885 blocks this bug, but that particular
RFE is very close to being FIXED.

Comment 1

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

accepting: this isn't a high priority for neil, but it is very important for me.

Comment 2

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

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Comment 3

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

cc'ing glazman; N|vu should be aware of this as well.

Comment 4

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

Don't go there. It's already in Nvu...

Comment 5

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 6

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but still has no comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project 5 years ago.

Because of this, we're resolving the bug as EXPIRED.

If you still can reproduce the bug on SeaMonkey 2 or otherwise think it's still valid, please REOPEN it and if it is a platform or toolkit issue, move it to the according component.

Query tag for this change: EXPIRED-20100420