On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 05:09 +0000, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 19:22 -0500, Randall Wood wrote: > > - Perhaps the close button should be hidden when there is only a > > single tab? > > Just wanted to point out that Firefox puts the close button on the tab > itself because Mozilla did some usability testing and found that the > close-at-end-of-tab-bar button just confused people. They'd be asked to > close the tab, look around a bit, glance at that button, dismiss it, > look some more...etc. > > They've chosen to have "close" on a single tab close whatever file/site > happens to be open at the time but keep the application running.
Yes, I've seen that research [1] myself - looked convincing. Close buttons on tabs seems to be convention in GNOME apps right now, and that seems to be the correct approach. A. [1] http://people.mozilla.com/~faaborg/files/20070509-CHI2007/p1783.pdf _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
