Hi Thilo, Op Mon, 27 Jun 2005 19:13:57 +0200, schreef Thilo Pfennig:
> 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. Not necessarily. The important thing is that data loss is prevented. When the user presses the close button / menu item on a window, why second guess that maybe she actually meant to close one tab? Only when there's unsaved data, a dialog may appear-- but it would have appeared too when not having tabs. Plus, in a web browser at least, there's always the history that allows you to go back to accidentally closed webpages. > 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. Yes, improving performance of certain functions, like Back, would diminish the need for many tabs. > page? Javascript? I think a website could also organize content in tabs. > it could have the TOC at the first tab and so on. Interesting idea, but it should never be forced upon the browser, it could be suggested by a style sheet perhaps. > But I don't what to concentrate on browsers, because that probably would > be better discussed in the epiphany list. Feel free to do so :-) > This reminds me on the time where Apple experimented with > OpenDoc ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc) anybody else has seen > this? ;-) Yes. I've seen it in action on OS/2 Warp, even. regards, -- Reinout _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
