Re: changing image-loading handling.

[Lex Hider <alexeijh pacific net au>]

On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 15:22, Adam Hooper wrote:
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> Lex Hider wrote:
> | I know the Epiphany philosophy is GNOME's: sensible defaults and no
> | useless options so I am interested on what people think on this
issue.
> 
> My two pence: I think "Images" acceptance policy is as important as
> "Cookies" to many people, so the pref may be useful.
> 
> Lex: I'd like to propose an Epiphany extension, though... tell me what
> you think of this interface:
> - - Set a global pref to disable images in the Preferences window.
> - - Browse to a "trusted" website.
> - - Enable "View -> [ ] Images". Images show up. Ditto for disabling
> - - If the global pref is enabled, you can still unset "View -> [x]
> Images" to hide them for that particular site.
> 
> This is very similar to my existing Popup Blocker extension's
interface.
> It's no coincidence: the code would be nearly identical, since both
use
> the Permission Manager. (In fact, I might as well code Cookies support
> while I'm at it, but that doesn't really fit in with this discussion.)
> 
> There's one issue I'd need to resolve, though: "Accept only from
server"
> would be *good practice* for the menu option but not *expected
> behavior*. I could make my extension accept from all servers which are
> referenced in <img> tags, but that would enable a lot of ad servers
> automatically and unintentionally. Should I have two separate menu
> options (one to enable from site, another to enable from all sites in
> <img> tags)?
> 
> Beyond that, I can't seem to find a pref to make Mozilla show image
> placeholders. This really makes me angry. IMO Konqueror has Mozilla
beat
> in this respect.
> 
> | PS - thanks to noda for taking me through a few of the issues on
> | #epiphany.
> 

Sorry for late reply but have been away from computer for awhile.

I'm not currently up to speed on extensions but if this is seen as
additional to the base browser I think the images should be part of
the core browser technology.

>From your description the menu item and preference item seem to 
duplicating the same thing. It seems to me you'd only need one.
Why set it in preferences when you can set/unset in the menu and 
vice versa.

Also the way you describe it you'd have "no images" set in the 
preferences and then go to a trusted site and then use the menu
"view images" set to enabled.
What happens as you go to various pages on the same domain and
what happens when you go to a different page on a different 
domain. 
Also does this mean you have a different setting for each tab?

I suppose I'm 100% sure on what you're proposing.

One solution [which is basically a merging of konqueror's idea
and yours] would be this...

* preferences turn off image loading.
* you have a toolbar button that looks like a picture frame
     depicting image-handling.
* the konqueror way of working is that you have to press this
button every time you want to see images.
You're solution seems like this button would be a toggle-button
with a state for each opened tab???
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not sure on the best solution for images on different domain thing.

Glad to see your interest in this and am interested on what you
make of this all.

Lex.

PS - having become more accustomed to epiphany, intelligent
image-handling is the one feature I really miss.