Managing Several Displays with the Multi-Screen Window Placement API

Re:Managing Several Displays with the Multi-Screen Window Pl... by donatj on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @04:56AM (#24490821)

This is a very odd, very niche feature. I can’t imagine ever wanting a webapp to organize my windows across displays for me.

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Re:Managing Several Displays with the Multi-Screen Window Pl... by tomayac on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @06:18AM (#24491230)

I wouldn't call slide show apps niche at this point in history. https://web.dev/multi-screen-window-placement/#use-cases:~:t....

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Re:Managing Several Displays with the Multi-Screen Window Pl... by donatj on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @03:22PM (#24496452)

I'd say the need to not just move your windows yourself in that given case is niche.

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Re:Managing Several Displays with the Multi-Screen Window Pl... by PaulHoule on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @08:03AM (#24491762)

Who writes native desktop apps anymore?

Sure, HP writes UWP application to harass you into buying more ink.

However a wide swath of firms develop on Mac for a Windows world, thus electron.

I have looked long and far for a good cross platform ui toolkit and I don't believe there is anything that comes close to the web platform.

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Re:Managing Several Displays with the Multi-Screen Window Pl... by rektide on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @12:57PM (#24494567)

It's an old legacy mentality when you can't imagine web systems filling the role of regular applications. Please update your mental models accordingly.

That you happen to think of the web as being for this specific thing that you imagine is not a fair constraint. The web does not want to be excluded from becoming more, please stop placing it in the corner.

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