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“The fact of not even being able, by design, to have two windows visible at the same time is a show stopper for me” You cannot have multiple windows on most mo
by riobard 16y ago
“The fact of not even being able, by design, to have two windows visible at the same time is a show stopper for me”
You cannot have multiple windows on most mobile devices. Or TV's. People live fine with it.
- kin 16y agoon the other hand, it would be really neat if chrome or some 3rd party app let you split screen two windows
- sullivandanny 16y agoThis isn't a mobile device. It's a laptop. If I can take a laptop right now with Chrome on it, break off two separate windows, why on earth wouldn't I be able to do that on a Chrome laptop? The answer is that they haven't implemented it yet. I expect they will.
- riobard 16y agoBased on my experience watching non-techy users using browsers, and the design goal of Chrome OS, I don't think it is going to happen anytime soon. Quick question: if you can split into two windows, why not 4? 8? Then you end up with a Window-based UI, which is more complicated than simple tab-based. It is very limiting, but I don't think normal people who just check their emails and Facebook updates would find annoying.
- sullivandanny 16y agoI agree. I think few people would be upset if they couldn't open up two separate browser windows. That's hardly a product killer, in and of itself.
- js2 16y ago"is a show stopper for _me_".
- riobard 16y agoTrue. My point is the design of Chrome OS doesn't seem to have superusers in mind.