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

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:55:25 +0100, Robert J.C. Ivens wrote:
> 
> In my view the way OmniWeb has implemented the tabs concept is the 
> best and most elegant I've seen in any app.

I'd say aye for an aesthetic reason. 

One thing I don't like about conventional horizontal tabs is that you 
have Escher's staircase in there. You have one foreground tab and other 
background tabs (meaning tabs are three-dimensional objects) inside a 
flat, two-dimensional browser UI. It's self-contradictory. Safari's tab 
design is the ugliest one in this respect - the foreground tab unified 
with the Bookmark bar gets suddenly separated from it once the tab is 
background. How ridiculous!

With OmniWeb's tab style, you have no Escher's staircase. You have one 
highlighted tab and other not-highlighted tab inline. It acts just like 
Finder's preview function. Very simple and intuitive, don't you think?

Yosuke Arai