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Apple tried to fix that by placing the tabs on top of the address bar like Chrome does. People complained. It looked a little funny. http://www.macworld.com/ar
by natrius 17y ago
Apple tried to fix that by placing the tabs on top of the address bar like Chrome does. People complained. It looked a little funny.
http://www.macworld.com/article/139026/2009/02/safari4tabs.html http://www.macworld.com/article/139026/2009/02/safari4tabs.h...
- tvon 17y agoI kind of liked the Apple take on it, but I think Chrome out did them by making the tab only take up most of the vertical titlebar space. If Apple did that, I think it would have worked out better.
- pkulak 17y agoI really liked those Safari tabs. I guess I was in the minority though. It prepared me very nicely for Chrome tabs, though.
- carbon8 17y agoThe top tabs do indeed make a lot more sense in a number of key aspects. But it's important to remember that the entire concept of tabs in OS X windows has long been criticized by a contingent of hardcore apple fans who argue it breaks from the one-document-per-window model. And they have a point, and it is part of why tabs in OS X are hard in general. Plus, in the safari beta they were pretty ugly and visually messy.
- joe_the_user 17y agoFascinating how history can limit a UI designers choices...
- pvandehaar 17y agoIt's more of ideology and design principle.
- cmelbye 17y agoI loved those tabs, and I was really annoyed when they removed them in the next beta after that. I stuck with the same beta for months because of that.