Re: That tab panel off on the side

If you don't see any advantage then don't use OmniWeb. I'm sorry, but  
things are as simple as that. FWIW, FF has only been able to  
rearrange tabs for a few months while OmniWeb has been able to do it  
for a few *years* now. Incidentally, here are some of the things that  
you can't do with a conventional tab interface that you can with  
OmniWeb tabs (and I *do* use 99% of these features, 50% of them I use  
a lot):

1. You can't copy/cut and paste tabs
2. You can't duplicate tabs by option dragging them.
3. You can't quickly scroll through them all without having to click  
disclosure triangles to see tabs that have dropped off the edge of  
the bar (effectively making the tab bar useless for more than a few  
tabs) and you also have no visual clue as to how many tabs are open  
when this happens.
4. You can't see the difference between two tabs from the same place  
when the name is truncated (and more often than not, even if the name  
isn't truncated)
5. You can't resize the tabs to your own liking (and tabs don't  
remain a consistent size as they continually shrink as the bar fills  
up).
6. You can't make selections of more than one tab and you certainly  
can't select discontiguous tabs.
7. You can't drag tabs to the dock to bookmark them.

There are probably more...

Cheers,

Jonathan

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On 24 Jan 2007, at 23:33, Doug Lerner wrote:

>
> On Jan 25, 2007, at 7:14 AM, Jonathan Tyzack wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Perhaps, they'll add it to OmniWeb 6.0, but for now, the costs (in  
>> time required) of doing it more than likely don't provide them  
>> with any advantages.
>>
>> Personally, I think that once you start getting used to using the  
>> vertical tabs and the other features they provide, you will find  
>> horizontal ones extremely limiting in comparison.
>
> Yes, well... I sort of like software working the way *I* want it to  
> rather than me having to retrain myself. I really don't see any  
> *advantage* in the OmniWeb tabs. People have mentioned things like  
> being able to rearrange them by dragging, etc. You can do that in  
> FireFox as well. To me it is just an annoyance - instead of seeing  
> my tabs right in front of me I have this "thing" hanging off the  
> browser window that I have to look at separately and go to  
> separately to deal with tabs.
>
> To me it seems awkward, and space-wasting, and sort of grody. I  
> tried all day yesterday to use it and just found it ... cumbersome.
>
> I guess it's a matter of personal taste combined with what you are  
> used to. I believe all the people here are sincere in that they  
> prefer it (though I can't wrap my mind around *why*). :)
>
> There really is just one OmniWeb fantastic feature I've seen so far  
> that made me feel like licensing - the ability to open up tiny  
> forms in a larger editing window. That is definitely super cool.  
> And I almost licensed it just for that.
>
> But I don't want to use tabs hanging off on the side! Sorry!
>
> I appreciate everybody's feedback though! Thanks!
>
> doug
>
>