3 ms·

Anyone remembers these old Win 95-era programs that faked tabs and tab panes by having a number of buttons in a row and switching the content of the pane below?

• walterlb 5y ago
  They apparently have re-implemented tabs using some sort of tab-by-wire system, since the physical tab-to-content connection is now missing :)
  • mathw 5y ago
    Yes that feels very weird. I expect I'll get used to it, but as somebody who used to be very passionate about how tabs must be above the address bar because that is part of the tab not the overall browser, losing that visual link of "all this page stuff is inside the tab" is weird.
• marcodiego 5y ago
  Napster.
• TonyTrapp 5y ago
  Interestingly, they (or at least not all of them) didn't fake it - there's a style option on the tab control to turn tabs into push buttons. It looked exactly like the task bar - maybe the task bar was actually implemented using that control.
  • _Microft 5y ago
    I did not know that. Is it this? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/controls/tab-controls#tab-control-styles https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/controls/tab-... https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/controls/tab-control-styles https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/controls/tab-...
    • TonyTrapp 5y ago
      Yeah, I think it's TCS_BUTTONS. Looks like this: http://www.kumei.ne.jp/c_lang/img/sdk20601.gif http://www.kumei.ne.jp/c_lang/img/sdk20601.gif