506740 - Write a JEP for jetpack.panels

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Labs :: Jetpack Prototype, defect, P1)

Description

[Atul Varma [:atul]]

jetpack.panels should allow authors to create an opaque "pop-up panel" or "pop-up window" that hovers an IFRAME over existing content.  The IFRAME should be able to be anchored to any major visible part of the browser, such as a status bar panel or a web page element.

Comment 1

[Aza Raskin [:aza]]

jetpack.panel

window = open()
open({
  anchor: DOMElement/none // If none, then screen.
  top/left/right/bottom: int // If none, then either center of screen, or under mouse. Also, in relation to the anchor element.
  width: int
  height: int,
  transient: true(bool) // If false, will close when you click outside of it/escape key is pressed
  restoreFocus: true(bool) //When the panel is closed, refocus last thing
  takeFocus: true(bool) / Currently focused element will be unfocused whenever the popup is opened or closed,
  url: blah,
  html: blah,
  style: inline CSS/link to CSS file
});

window.contentDocument
window.contentWindow

window.close()
window.hide()
window.show()

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL/PopupGuide/Panels
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL/PopupGuide/OpenClose
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL/PopupGuide/Positioning

Comment 2

[Nick Nguyen [:osunick]]

Aza,

Can you post as a JEP and close this bug?  Thanks!

Comment 4

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Aza wrote the initial version of this JEP <https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Jetpack/JEP/23>.  I'm now updating and revising in the process of planning and executing the implementation over in bug 494238.

But although the document will change significantly over the course of the revision process, I think the original intent of this bug has been satisfied, so resolving it.