I start to tell them about tabs and they then tell me that they already know about them and that everyone at work etc is already using them etc. One of the people is my brother and he is dumb!
"but i think almost every tab browser user would use the tabs."
Are you guessing or is this what you have observed?
When watching other people use computers - which I try to do whenever I get a chance - I have yet to see anyone except for the most web savvy use tabs. And these are people who are using Firefox, and one friend using IE7, every day.
Maybe I just have a lot of dumb friends, family and colleagues… I dunno… but they just prefer to open the links in new windows, or can't be bothered doing the whole tab thing. When I open tabs in front of them they joke cause I'm their 'computer nut web geek friend' LOL!
No doubt this will change over time, but IMHO I feel it is too early to assume that everyone who can uses tabbed browsing. And I guess there will be some people who will always prefer not to.
From: [email protected] [mailto: [email protected]] On Behalf Of Germ
Sent: Tuesday, 15 August 2006 1:14 p.m.
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Subject: Re: [WSG] tabs (was target=_blank)
I think you are not giving much credit to the average user hear...
I have talked to a few normal web users and the ones who use firefox and other tab browsers all use tabs
I agree that you cannot assume most people use tab browsers as the majority still use IE (stats back this up) but i think almost every tab browser user would use the tabs.
On 8/15/06, Rachel May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From my observations, it is only REALLY web savvy people that use tabs. As brilliant and useful as they are, it is still too new to assume *most* people use them, and that *most* people can manage how the links open.
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