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I really wonder what they'll come up with. Unlike you, I really enjoy my tabs. They work perfectly for me. They give easy access to and a quick overview of open

by lucumo 17y ago

I really wonder what they'll come up with. Unlike you, I really enjoy my tabs. They work perfectly for me. They give easy access to and a quick overview of open pages. At a cost of almost no display space. I've been hooked on tabs since before they were called "tabs" (Opera's MDI taskbar). They haven't changed a lot in those years and I generally love these things. Any replacement that comes at a price of losing one of the features mentioned above, will surely be hated by me. So yeah, I'm curious what they'll come up with. I'm also sceptical they will find a replacement. But we'll see.

nileshk 17y ago
I personally really like Opera's MDI interface in general (note that they no longer have it in OS X, but the Windows and Linux versions still have it). Being able to tile pages is nice, especially tiling vertically, what with the huge widescreen monitors we have these days and the way so many web pages have a small fix width. Yes, I know that you can achieve the same by opening up multiple windows and arrange them side by side, but if your operating system / window manager doesn't have good tiling abilities, this can be a chore, especially if you want to quickly switch back and forth between layouts. I wouldn't say that straight MDI is really ideal, I'd like to see some sort of split-pane type thing. Like Emacs, where you can arbitrarily split a pane horizontally or vertically and change what buffer you are viewing in each one. The buffers in this case being all web pages that are open. For extra points, because its probably technically difficult, being able to show the same web page in multiple panes would be cool; especially if you could do something like "Follow mode" in Emacs. This is probably not something with mainstream appeal, though.
- nileshk 17y ago
  Apparently there is a Firefox plugin to do split panes: http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_splitbrowser.html.en http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_splitbrowser.html.en

by lucumo 17y ago

nileshk 17y ago

I personally really like Opera's MDI interface in general (note that they no longer have it in OS X, but the Windows and Linux versions still have it). Being able to tile pages is nice, especially tiling vertically, what with the huge widescreen monitors we have these days and the way so many web pages have a small fix width. Yes, I know that you can achieve the same by opening up multiple windows and arrange them side by side, but if your operating system / window manager doesn't have good tiling abilities, this can be a chore, especially if you want to quickly switch back and forth between layouts. I wouldn't say that straight MDI is really ideal, I'd like to see some sort of split-pane type thing. Like Emacs, where you can arbitrarily split a pane horizontally or vertically and change what buffer you are viewing in each one. The buffers in this case being all web pages that are open. For extra points, because its probably technically difficult, being able to show the same web page in multiple panes would be cool; especially if you could do something like "Follow mode" in Emacs. This is probably not something with mainstream appeal, though.

nileshk 17y ago
Apparently there is a Firefox plugin to do split panes: http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_splitbrowser.html.en http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_splitbrowser.html.en