Some days ago I came across a nice jquery animated floating menu in this css template which I later used in my project web. CSS and JQuery are wonderful things. And I came to know that we can drag css boxes in some sites like imo.im.
Then last night I had this question in my mind which didn't let me sleep.
Why the webpages have to be imprisoned within the boundaries of the browser? Why can't the div tags go free outside?
Let me explain you my assumption in pictures.
1. I go to imo.im and ping a friend.
2. I don't like to stay on that page alone so I drag him alone outside the browser
3. Then I close that tab and open a new tab and go to twitter only to find the over capacity page.
4. I then move on to facebook and interested in a wall post of my friend. I don't wanna stay on facebook but I'd like to know what people are commenting about his post. So I drag it out.
5. I find some funny pic, take it out, come across some interesting video about MLK so taking it out as well. Then I go to codepad to try some code in python. I'll have everything in place. I can watch a video, notified of new fb comments and chat with a friend while I am doing my work. Wouldn't that be cool?
I don't know if this already exists. But there are some other kinds of similar things which are not what I'm talking about.
I am not talking about popped out stuffs which still have the boundaries of a browser. I don't want any window decorations. The dragged out box should have it's own close button.
I am not talking about widgets or gadgets or applets.
Those boxes should be alive even if the browsers are closed. (Means the browser process should stay in memory until the last box is closed).
Ofcourse this idea will be useless in mobiles. (Well atleast for the time being)
Conclusion
I am not a genius. Just wanted to post this idea. Hope some genius may get this idea and implement it for better web experience. If atleast one major browser implement this idea, then all others will follow just like when the Opera started the tabbed browsing and others followed.
