MCBastos wrote:
Interviewed by CNN on 2/2/2010 12:30, Phillip Jones told the world:
I really hope HJ gets inspired enough to do the migration. He is
the _true father of tabbed browsing_ . So we all owe him a debt of
gratitude.
So, 1.1.18 it is then. :-/
ahh so that's the rascal that's responsible.
Well, not quite. The concept of a tabbed interface apparently came from
IBM, as part of their CUA project. The first browser with something
similar to modern tabs was a development version of Opera. But they
kinda sat on it for a while, the feature was not very well known -- it
only came to their mainstream browser after others had reinvented it
independently.
Then, there was Netcaptor, which was a front-end for the IE engine,
that brought it to the general public. A couple others (including Opera)
followed suit.
HJ, the author of Multizilla, was the one who brought it to the Mozilla
project -- in the form of an extension. Dave Hyatt saw it, liked it, and
wrote his own implementation (not taken from Multizilla) for the trunk
Mozilla browser.
So, if you want someone to "blame" (I personally would "thank"), there's
quite a bunch of people. The guys at IBM and Opera for creating it, the
guys at Netcaptor for spreading it around, HJ for showing it could work
in a Mozilla product or Dave Hyatt for making it a core feature.
lol, well good on them all then! But especially HJ. :) The suite
was the first place I came across tabs, years before IE ever had
them. I guess that was 2002. And Multizilla was one of the first
extensions I tried. Been using it ever since.
On a slightly different note. Is anyone else that's still using SM
1.1.18 having trouble with chat in facebook (FB)? It always give
the error message: Facebook Chat Error
Could not connect to Facebook Chat at this time.
Also on FB, the top "status update" ("write something") text box.
I click in it and the mouse pointer changes to a text pointer, the
box gets a bit larger, but no cursor appears, and I can't type
anything in the box. The "attach" links work though. As does
everything else on FB.
It all works fine with Google Chrome.
Suggestions anyone? (besides updating to 2.x that is! :) )
Cheers.
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