Open jmcphers opened 4 months ago
Provide a way to open the Viewer Pane's contents in an editor tab, so that users/workflows that prefer this behavior can still use it.
If we added this, then a user such as the one in https://github.com/posit-dev/positron/discussions/4402 could open the Viewer Pane in an editor tab and then pull it out into a separate window.
In Positron, the Simple Browser (inherited from Code OSS) and the Positron Viewer Pane have a lot of overlap. Both of them show URLs and provide a toolbar for navigating URLs, etc. However, they also have some differences, for example:
Having two competing ways of viewing URLs with their own set of tradeoffs is confusing. For example, you have to choose between the Simple Browser and Viewer Pane when clicking on a URL:
Proposal: