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On Friday, April 26, 2002, at 06:19 AM, John Keith wrote:
> [..] this is a much better solution to tabbed windows.. And yes it also
> overcomes my biggest bug with tabbed windows... if you close the window
> you close all the tabs in it... and any unread messages will be lost
If you've ever used Mozilla with tabs, you wouldn't worry about
accidentally closing a window. In Mozilla, if you hit cmd-w, it closes that
tab, and that's it. In order to close the window you have to hit cmd-w a
bunch of times or shift-cmd-w or click on the close button of the window.
Drag-and-drop tabs that can be docked inside any chat window or torn off on
their own scales well and allows the user to arrange their windows as they
see fit. Best of all, the UI doesn't need to change very much. Just add a
"tab" to the list of configurable tools for a chat window and have the tab
be a draggable object which, if dragged into another chat window, adds the
conversation as a tab in that window. The tabs have to be draggable too so
that you can drag conversations out into their own window or into another
window, as you like. Windows with only one conversation don't show any tabs
at all [again, like Mozilla].
This is very similar to the UI used in Adobe Photoshop to arrange palettes
of tools. Try it there to see what I mean.
The beauty of this is that people who don't like it don't have to use it
and Fire will behave as it always has. However, those of us who prefer tabs
will have a much richer experience.
Reid
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