Escape #

IZUI web user agent

Zoom in

• Home shows groups
• Groups show pages
• Pages are viewed in isolation (no tabs or address bar)

Zoom out

• Esc key shows tabs page
• Esc key again shows groups page

Implementation - Firefox WebExtension version

• Escape is a popup window, where tabs exist but are hidden (using this bug]
• Escape home is tab 0
• Pages are opened up to the right
• Switching groups closes all tabs, and opens new group's tabs (unloaded)

TODO #

System

• move core mgmt/data to background from home

Extras

• a tab in home page shows windows as groups?
• option to import all windows as groups

Handling home page

• Create new tab for it
• OR use it like about:home, navigate away from it on url click
• Hide from visible tabs in home page
• ESC always goes back to it
• Always hide it, in whatever group it is

What happens when...

• User closes a tab
• User closes the window
• User goes fullscreen (from Firefox)
• User goes fullscreen (from web API)

How to...

• Open a new tab from home page? Have a URL entry bar there?

Notes from the tab-based version #

api.sessions.setTabValue(currentTabId, key, value); await api.sessions.getTabValue(currentTabId, key);

init groups

• there's always a default group (no group property on the tab)
• (OR should default group be all tabs)
• otherwise get group property from the tab

managing storage

• scaling to lots of tabs/groups
• collect all on startup
• manage cache
• what can change?
  • new tab in group
  • tab changes groups
  • tab closed (no action necessary)
  • undo close tab to a group that no longer exists (use current group)

relevant tab events

• new
  • set to current group
• activate
• close