Pop out editor window for page textareas

A feature that "pops out" page textareas into standalone text editor windows. This provides a low-distraction writing experience for users that is free of annoyances and limitations caused by the pages these textareas are contained in.

This is particularly useful for any kind of longer form writing, e.g. blog posts, forum posts, bug reports, emails, etc and can come in handy for users of multiple workspaces and monitors, since it allows page textareas to be moved independently from the host browser window.

The only implementation of this I've seen was in the old NeXTSTEP/Mac browser OmniWeb back in the mid-2000s. The UI that OmniWeb used for this, if I recall correctly, was a small button added to the top right corner of textareas in their scroll well, but should that prove infeasible a context menu item and/or menu item under the View or Tools menu might also work. I think the OmniWeb implementation only updated the text in the page textarea after the user closed the standalone window but I say for certain.

Apologies for the lack of clarity.

I dug out my old PowerBook and tracked down an old version of OmniWeb to demonstrate with the following screenshots.

I believe it worked on any textarea. At the very least it worked on just about every forum reply box I came across back then.

The UI might be a little more challenging now that scrollbar tracks aren't always visible, maybe a floating button of some sort could do the trick.

Yeah, it doesn't trigger unless the user clicks the little button on the top end of the scroll track that the cursor is hovering over in the screenshot. Agree that it triggering upon textarea focus would be irritating.