Am Montag, den 27.06.2005, 14:45 +0100 schrieb Alan Horkan: > It is important to try and understand the > problems users think a Tabbed interface will solve and treat the problem > not the symptoms.
I think you are right. I do not really "love" tabs, allthough I thin they are really helpful. I think important is something like if somebody closes a window and there are many tabs open, that the application asks if the user really wants to close all tabs. The tabs are really different in every application. In the web the problem often is that the structure is not that good or that using the back-button is very slow in comparison of having for example (a typical usage for me): 7 news articles open from one news site that I can close when I have read them. The question could also be at a browser level what tabs in one window do have in common. Is it possible to open a new tab explicitly with a web page? Javascript? I think a website could also organize content in tabs. it could have the TOC at the first tab and so on. But I don't what to concentrate on browsers, because that probably would be better discussed in the epiphany list. But one has to ask what tabs mean to a user. I think adding effects to a tab can help very much using them. for instance if a tab changes colour if page is loaded or is changing content. It wouild also be possible if one could mix tabs: so gedit could have a terminal an a browser tab. I think this might be interesting (embedding applications) like it is know with mozplugger or with some file types in Epiphany. This reminds me on the time where Apple experimented with OpenDoc ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc) anybody else has seen this? ;-) thilo -- Dieser Inhalt ist unter einer Creative Commons-Lizenz lizenziert: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/de/ _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
