The Firebird "Web Panels" feature is getting really nice, really fast. Take a look.
Web Panels is much more useful/versitile/practical than the old SeaMonkey sidebar. If you're visiting a page that you want to hold onto for a few minutes you can just pres the "Grab Page" button and it pulls that page from the content area into the Web Panels sidebar. If it's something really useful, like Gemal's BlogUpdates or the "Post to Movable Type" pop-up, then you just "Grab" it and click "Add Web Panel". That creates a bookmark for the page with a special flag that causes it to always open in the Web Panels sidebar. (You can set this flag on any bookmark by opening the bookmark's properties and checking the box labeled "Load this bookmark in the Web Panels sidebar.")
There's still more work to be done for things like context menus, supporting the SeaMonkey sidebar API, persisting content when the panel is closed or another sidebar is loaded, etc. but it's already very useful. Grab a build in the morning and take a look.
Posted by asa at August 3, 2003 02:22 AMWow...web panels rock! While I was able to get pages to display in the web panel, I couldn't find out to always make them display there. I didn't see "Add to Web Panel" or the checkbox in the bookmark properties window. Maybe this stuff didn't get checked in in time for last night's nightly?
If it matters, here's my user agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030802 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
I so can't wait until this web panels stuff is done. It's so gonna rock!!!! :)
Posted by: milbertus on August 3, 2003 07:38 AMmmm.. I like!! thanks for sharing the screenshot.
Posted by: eliot on August 3, 2003 08:05 AMKickass feature :D
Posted by: Tom Sommer on August 3, 2003 10:34 AMHmm, but it's still full of nasty bugs :)
Posted by: Tom Sommer on August 3, 2003 11:00 AMIts still a little rough around the edges, but it sure is cool.
Posted by: rgw on August 3, 2003 11:16 AMHey, one suggestion (probably one you guys have already thought of): move the throbber down to where the sidebar content is like Seamonkey. The throbber looks out of place where it is currently.
Posted by: rgw on August 3, 2003 11:21 AMHere's another question... could links with a target of _search be passed to the web panel? It's obviously not standard, but it's what IE does, and a lot of pages targeted at the IE sidebar would start working.
Posted by: Anil Dash on August 3, 2003 09:09 PMHey! How about providing your desktop wallpaper to the group? You know, the giant dark blue Mozilla head. I've been using the Mars photo for a while now, I think it's time to move it to desktop 2...
Posted by: motobass on August 5, 2003 05:30 PMWow, cool stuff in work here, this is a feature I'd be very interesting in having.