> On a more related note, people seem to be fairly protective of vertical > resolution, so it might be a bit of an uphill battle to include this > slider. I realise this is on your list of questions/problems, but I > think it is quite a significant point (with widescreen laptops being the > norm, and netbooks with bad vertical resolution being common)
Yes, I was aware that vertical screen space was a disadvantage of the slider aspect of the design (the mixed tab widths approach exists independently of the slider, I hasten to add). I was unsure about how significant a disadvantage it was, though. In particular, I hadn't considered the widescreen/netbook issue. I can see how that could be a problem. The same kind of functionality that you get with the slider could be accommodated by something that wouldn't take up as much vertical space. Check out the page again [1]. I just threw up a very rough mockup of an alternative. Allan [1] http://live.gnome.org/ScratchPad/NewTabWidget _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
