Re: That tab panel off on the side

On Jan 25, 2007, at 9:39 AM, Jonathan Tyzack wrote:

> If you don't see any advantage then don't use OmniWeb. I'm sorry,  
> but things are as simple as that.

Yes, of course. That much is obvious. :)

But I thought it would be worth discussing things before I decided to  
go that way.

> 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.

All very nice. If just the *basic* functionality wasn't awkward! :)

doug