Re: That tab panel off on the side

On Jan 24, 2007, at 4:18 PM, Doug Lerner wrote:

> Because I think in "sites". For example, when I'm maintaining a  
> bunch of
> customer sites. I want the tab to at least say which customer site  
> I'm in...

Doug, here's another feature for you to investigate - workspaces.

When I'm doing my normal browsing, I have one workspace. But when
I am working on a particular web site, I have another workspace for
that. That workspace has its own set of tabs. It can save (or not
save) its state during browsing.

I find that using workspaces helps me separate different aspects of
my web usage. You mentioned that you need to know which customer's
site you are on. Perhaps looking at it from a higher level using a
different feature (workspaces) might help.

My default workspace doesn't save its state while browsing but has
eight tabs ready to go when I launch. The other four workspaces
save wherever they are while I browse. Their tabs can be bigger or
smaller or a different style (list vs. icon).

Ken's note of each tab having its own history is also important.

I don't use Safari or Firefox enough to have an opinion on how they
do tabs or anything else. I've been happily using OmniWeb for several
years (tabs and workspaces for almost 3 years!) and feel lost without
the visual tabs on the left.

Beth Katz