Re: Way to view tabs in a horizontal tab bar like other browsers?

Hi, Robert.

I guess with the text tabs they are a little better than the big  
graphics, as per your screenshot.

Please note that with the other browsers too, you can drag and  
rearrange the tabs. So that is not special to OW.

I think the FireFox tabs are easier to get "immediate visual  
feedback" from though, at least for me, for  the following reasons:

1. Note that the FireFox tabs show icons for each tab. The OW are  
just text in that mode. So there is better graphical feedback in  
FireFox.

2. I still maintain that being able to look straight ahead rather  
than off to the side is easier. It would be nice if OW at least had  
that option. Surely nobody is saying that being forced to change your  
visual focus off to the side in order to view the tabs is actually  
BETTER are they?

doug

On Jan 23, 2007, at 11:56 PM, Robert J.C. Ivens wrote:

> Hi Doug,
>
> <Picture 2.png>
>
> This is FireFox with 9 tabs open. See how unreadable they are...and  
> these are only 9.
> Now take a look at OW with the same 9 sites open:
>
>
> <Picture 1.png>
>
> 9 tabs and you see immidiatly in what tab you are. Also the titles  
> are still readable.
> And I have room to spare...I could open 30 sites and things would  
> still be readable. Try that with Safari or FireFox.
> Also I can change the order of tabs, move tabs from one window to  
> the other. Again..try that with another browser.
>
> As for the naming "tabs". You do know that tabpanels can have their  
> tabs on either four sides of a tabpanel, right?
> Also ever had a notepad/notebook with tabs? they are on the  
> side...and can be vertical or horizontally oriented.
> So OW's implementation can definitely be named "tabs".
>
> Robert
>
>
> On 23-jan-2007, at 15:04, Doug Lerner wrote:
>
>> Well in that case there seems to be even less reason for a side  
>> tabs palette, doesn't there? You might as well just have the tabs  
>> right in front of you.
>>
>> In the side palette they aren't really "tabs" in the meaning of  
>> the word tab anyway.
>>
>> doug
>>
>> On Jan 23, 2007, at 9:29 PM, Robert J.C. Ivens wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Doug,
>>>
>>> Sounds to me you are using the tabs with the preview enabled.  
>>> Just collapse the preview (selector at the top of the list) and  
>>> you won't even want to have horizontal tabs. ;-)
>>>
>>> Robert
>>>
>>> On 23-jan-2007, at 7:35, Doug Lerner wrote:
>>>
>>>> In FireFox, for example, you can have a few dozen tabs, at  
>>>> least, open at the same time. They scrunch into the space,  
>>>> getting narrower as needed.
>>>>
>>>> The main point is that you can *instantly* see which tab you are  
>>>> in - right in front of you - and without scrolling the tabs.
>>>>
>>>> I don't know if file attachments will get through this email  
>>>> list, but here is an example. You can see exactly which tab I am  
>>>> in looking straight ahead - no turn of your head, no scrolling  
>>>> through tabs to find yourself
>>>>
>>>> <tabs1.jpg>
>>>>
>>>> In OmniWeb I don't have immediate visual feedback of which tab  
>>>> I'm in.
>>>>
>>>> I think OmniWeb is quite cool - but I think the tab  
>>>> implementation is awkward to use.
>>>>
>>>> doug
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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