Widescreen fun.

 I've hacked up a scroll synchronized dual or tri pane viewer.  As you scroll the first pane, the second stays one page ahead.   With a 1400 width scren this is just barely useful for things like slashdot threads.  At 1600, it's likely to be great -- inspired by a blog post about a OSX app.

The "page down" button doesn't generate scroll events (bug?), but that should scroll the first page two screenfulls to avoid revisiting content previewed in the 2nd page. 


I developed this in chrome, but it should (but doesn't) work with priveledges granted in Mozilla from http. It needs ExternalCapture, BrowserRead, and BrowserRight access. Feedback welcome, looks like a bug.

If I work the kinks out, I'll wrap it into an installer.  In the mean time, if anyone wants to play with the chrome code, drop me a line.

Check the elastic windows project for more widescreen ideas, heavily patented alas.
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Posted at 17:15, Published in: Mozilla UI