Patrick Brosset <:pbro> Reporter
	Description • 9 years ago

toolbox.xul is this very thin UI wrapper around tools iframes. In an effort to reduce how many XUL features we use, we should rewrite this document in HTML instead.

Most of the UI is:
- a list of tabs,
- a list of buttons

But there's also:
- the split console
- a context menu
- key shortcuts
- the notification box

Re-doing the tabs and buttons in HTML is fairly easy, however the other part seems more complex to replace.

I believe there are enough advantages in getting rid of XUL to consider doing this anyway.

	Patrick Brosset <:pbro> Reporter
	Comment 1 • 9 years ago

wip HTML mockup for the toolbar part only: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/714210/toolbar.html
(supports drag/drop of tabs, but that's not for this bug)

	Tim Nguyen :ntim
	Comment 2 • 9 years ago

(In reply to Patrick Brosset [:pbrosset] [:patrick] [:pbro] from comment #0)
> But there's also:
> - the split console
> - a context menu
> - key shortcuts
> - the notification box
> 
> Re-doing the tabs and buttons in HTML is fairly easy, however the other part
> seems more complex to replace.
In the short term, for the key shortcuts, the context menu and the split console splitter, we can use xul as additional namespace and xhtml as main namespace. Then we should be able to use xul elements like this : <xul:menu></xul:menu>

As for the notification box, it should be fairly easy to create our custom one in html. That will allow us to have prettier notifications too.

	Brian Grinstead [:bgrins] Assignee
	Comment 3 • 8 years ago

Done with the initial breakdown