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Designers need to get off their high horses and thinking they can do better than the perfect visual metaphor tabs have been taking advantage of for YEARS. The t
by hbn 4y ago
Designers need to get off their high horses and thinking they can do better than the perfect visual metaphor tabs have been taking advantage of for YEARS. The tab is connected to the browser chrome = it's the active tab. It's so simple and intuitive. But Apple and Mozilla both have made attempts to reinvent this and every time it's in obviously worse ways. Thankfully Apple, in a rare display of acknowledging their mistake, backtracked on their horrible tab redesign shortly after shipping it. Well, it's still there in the Safari settings but the default is the old design that actually makes sense.
A good article about why the redesigned Safari tabs are bad:
https://daringfireball.net/2021/10/the_tragedy_of_safari_15_quote_unquote_tabs https://daringfireball.net/2021/10/the_tragedy_of_safari_15_...