On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Dean McNamee<de...@chromium.org> wrote: > > I feel like people are using tabs as a replacement for a good history > system. At least in all current browser implementations, tabs are > "running". Even if we can make the UI scale to 1000 tabs, the 500 > flash instances that are likely running aren't really going to > perform. The making tab performance scale is a separate technical > issue that will hopefully also improve.
Guess we should continue to remove more and more reasons for people to build things in Flash, then = ) > Looking at a lot of these design videos, they looked more like good > ideas to me for history navigation than tab navigation. If history > was good, I think people wouldn't be so worried about "losing > something" by closing a tab. Having had bad history systems for so > many years, people are now trained to keep tabs open if they ever > might want to look at that page again in the future :\ > > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Peter Kasting<pkast...@google.com> wrote: >> http://design-challenge.mozilla.com/summer09/ >> The results of the "Reinventing Tabs in the Browser" challenge have been >> announced. >> "Collapsible Tab Groups" includes among others some things I've proposed, >> including grouping and collapsing groups. >> "Favitabs" reminds me of some old brainstorming ideas from pamg about >> converting certain tabs into favicon buttons. >> Folks considering the future of tabs (e.g. Ben, Glen, Scott) might do well >> to take a look at some of these. >> PK >> > >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
