Am 29.02.2004 um 23:50 schrieb Steve Benner:
At 7:34 pm +0100 29/2/04, Ralph Scheuer wrote:
Observation: The close button of the next tab is now exactly under your pointer, ready to be clicked
As good an argument as I can make for *not* doing it this way! :)
The "accedental click" onto the tab's close button is, in my view, much more probable with the current incarnation where you cannot just "guess" where the close button is located and that the first tab is located in the same, identical location because it keeps jumping around due to relocation _and_ resizing...
In fact, with the centered tabs, the items re-locate into two directions when you close a tab or open a new one - which is eventually kind of the same argument Apple uses for the single menu bar that always keeps its location - it is a more reliable target from the ergonomic point of view when compared to the Windows way of having one menu bar per window.
I really cannot see how having left-aligned tabs with the close button on the left (where every Mac person expects it to be - I think we agree there) would conflict with your way of surfing compared to the current way of doing it.
I tend to use Gecko-based browsers on various occasions and every time I do, I find the tab behavior really annoying - btw I think Camino is in fact the only browser that uses centered tabs (Seamonkey and Firefox don't - but their interface is enough of a penalty to not use them on a regular basis)
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