?[Browsers contd] 10 seconds to page loaded is impressive when there are 269 tabs open in 20 groups, current group has 20+ tabs so all of those are pretty much loaded too - so yes that is fast. 1 or 2 tabs is a lot faster again.
lots of tabs is useful if the browser handles it effortlessly, rather than bookmarking and closing them I just leave them open. Particularly useful for tabs I don't want to bookmark or keep long-term, and will only refer to for a day or so. Think of it as an alternative to bookmarks and opening bookmarks. Firefox Panorama allows one to organise open tabs into different groups, and drag and drop them from one group to another. The browser is pretty much only dealing with the one current group of tabs at once (others are a keystroke or two away). Its like the multiple desktops available in linux, or MacOS. This is Off-topic - but relevant to Delphi in that these are new paradigms about how to handle more objects than fit in a menu or dropdown list. The Vista/Windows 7 way is to make a terrific search box. The Delphi XE IDE (IDE insight) and Windows Live Mail filtering does the same idea. The MS Office way is to introduce the ribbon menus to find options more easily. In Delphi applications the most usual approach is to filter a large dataset in a grid. The Firefox Panorama is quite a new paradigm - organise groups visually on screen yourself by spatial placement - the user chooses the size and placement. Way more intuitive than folders. Its an outstanding design IMHO. There are some issues with it, (mainly speed but largely cured with hardware/graphics acceleration) but its as new an idea as the Ribbon in Office, or multi-touch. But worth checking out as such a design is likely to be used and copied in lots of other software in future. John Is 10 secs supposed to be impressive ? Chrome+ (note: NOT Google Chrome) 1.5.0 - start and load my iGoogle home page is < 4 secs on my system (and that includes all widgets - TradeMe, Stuff, BBC F1 News, Stack Overflow, Delphi Feeds) having completed their initial update). >> handle 200+ tabs using same memory as most other browsers >> with 10-20 tabs. >Whoop-de-doo... >Show me a *USER* that can [productively] handle 10-20 tabs and I'd be >surprised. :) >200+ tabs... useful for feature list bragging rights, but beyond that... ? Thats a bit like saying who would ever need more than 10 files in a folder so why cater for it? http://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&biw=1600&bih=776&defl=en&q=define:luddite&sa=X&ei=BeQGTc3NFNTNnAetj8nlDQ&ved=0CBUQkAE _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
