Garth Wallace wrote: > I had an idea for a feature for the tabbed browser: the titles of tabs > whose contents have not yet been viewed (that is, the page just loaded > and the tab is not active) should show up in bold, and those of tabs > whose contents have changed since being last viewed (that is, the tab > was active when the page was downloading, but was made inactive before > the page was fully downloaded) should be underlined. It would make it > easier to keep track of which tabs have been viewed. > > It would also be consistent with mailnews threading, where boldface > marks unread threads and underline marks threads containing read and > unread messages. The general rule would be: boldface means totally > new/unread, underline means partly read, plain means read. > > I'm going to submit it to bugzilla (unless someone convinces me that it > would be a horrible idea). But I'm curious...would this be considered > one bug or two? It seems like two, but both would be required for UI > consistency with mailnews. > > Thoughts? >
<sigh> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109607 Please consider the usability problems that already exist with Classic. Bolding to identify the active tab is the only cross-platform suggestion that's been made so far. Throwing a bunch of new styles in will only compound the problem. What are the chances something like you suggest can be restricted to Modern?