I use a combination of tabs and new browser windows. I find it quite useful to organise say work into one browser, slacking off into another and email monitoring into the last. That way if I'm slacking I can contain it all into one area but still preserve the ability to open new websites as I browse.
Tabs do take getting used to but once you've got used to them it's incredibly painful to go back to just opening new windows. Tabs are here to stay and we should cater our sites for people that use them. Samuel -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Donna Jones Sent: Tuesday, 15 August 2006 2:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WSG] tabs (was target=_blank) > "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. I don't suppose I'm typical, but i don't like tabs and don't use them very often. I prefer new browser windows and mainly its because i get around with "alt tabbing" through my windows. I don't like being married to the mouse and while I've learned one can Ctrl Tab, to go from tabbed page to tabbed page, i still prefer all my windows be open. Part of it is that a bunch of tabs at the top add considrably to the browser chrome, another part is that i'm used to looking in the bar at the bottom (task bar?) - with a bunch of tabs in one browser window, you can't tell what else is there, it just shows the active one. Alt tabbing works great for me and I routinely have 3 browsers open and maybe 15 or so windows and doing it all from the keyboard. cheers Donna > 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. -- Donna Jones Portland, Maine 207 772 0266 http://www.westendwebs.com/ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
