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To most people, there is no clear distinction between a web-app, website, or application in terms of how they understand interfaces and instructions.
"Save As" has been used in the most common applications for decades, and I have yet to see anyone confused by it. The situation that you describe is exactly one where "Save As" would be appropriate, and so ...
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Design it like an app.
If you want someone to interact with your website like an app you need to use the same frame of mind someone designing an app would use. Most of the documentation I've read on designing for IOS involves much more about user interaction and involvement than any technical gadgets or features. There are some excellent pointers on ...
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There's one big limit to on-page dialogues: They're always going to be covering up part of the page
Unlike having two actual windows, your dialogue can't be moved outside the browser chrome. You can't move them side-by-side (like the snap feature in Windows), for example. It'll always be covering something, somewhere. Arguably this can be more annoying than ...
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Answering to your question "Why is this not being used more widely?", I think it has to do not only with Google being the first one to do it, and do it right, but also with technology.
We have web applications that are still using tables for non-tabular data, applications that haven't changed in years. A dialog like this requires, at least, some ...
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The dialogs are not modal, so one can compose multiple mails in parallel by clicking Compose again. All parallely composed mails are auto-saved to drafts, they are undockable and minimizable in the window, so one can still browse and answer incoming mails in the also GMail-style "conversation" view.
As you see, these dialogs are quite powerful. The reason ...
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