Tabs / Multiple instances

[zerosix]

Tabs / Multiple instances

[zerosix]

or ideally, build the tabs with API~ I am thinking of an example where I would have a login window and the "tabs" are built based on the user who has logged in.

[jeff-h]

Would this not be possible completely within one webview, using CSS/JS tabs and several iFrames?

Obviously native tab behaviour is nice, but I'm not sure we can add that without a bunch of work and overhead. Someone else may prove me wrong :)

[rawcreative]

Tabs aren't a native control that's available in Cocoa, other than the kind in the Keyboard menu in System Preferences. The only way to achieve tabs like you see in chrome/safari/other browsers is to draw them manually with code. Implementing something like this into the default MacGap api is most likely not going to happen due to what's involved and the use cases. Another quite significant roadblock to this is even if we did implement a native tab interface, it wouldn't be of much use anyway as it would require two separate webviews and since every webview has it's own JS context, you can't run commands/execute scripts between tabs/webviews i.e. contexts can't talk to/run commands in another context. The only thing that we could do is listen for and trigger events unless we built a messaging system or something similar. This is a restriction due to the way Apple has built the JavaScriptCore.