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Why Tabs Must Die: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/04/why-tabs-must-die http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/04/why-tabs-must-die
by mitchtbaum 10y ago
Why Tabs Must Die: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/04/why-tabs-must-die http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/04/why-tabs-must-die
- frik 10y agoThe articles talks about "client side tabs". Opera 4-5 (?) implemented tabs based on MDI. That was the gold standard and most versatile tab implementation. You could resize child windows and arrange them so that multiple child windows were visible in the main window while still the tab-bar was useable. (examples: older Opera and older Dreamweaver had MDI and a tab-bar) Sadly, Microsoft never updated the MDI functionality (eg auto arranging child windows, snapping child windows to a side, icon mode, etc). MDI used to be so great in Win3x and got broken in Win95. The icon mode isn't implemented in Win95 (and later) nor has Microsoft added a native tab-bar based on MDI child windows. On the other side Microsoft Office programs like Word and Excel (at least in v2010) still are MDI based programs which all the legacy downsides that confuse users (who never heard about those partly hidden UI concepts).