Comments on: Tabs Want to be Seen

By: Recent Links Tagged With "tabs" - JabberTags

Recent Links Tagged With "tabs" - JabberTags — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:04:05 +0000

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By: New Control+Tab Discussion Thread « Boriss’ Blog

New Control+Tab Discussion Thread « Boriss’ Blog — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:37:33 +0000

[...] 28, 2008 Thanks everyone for contributing to the discussion on Control+Tab on my posts here and here. We’re going to be making the main thread of discussion from now on here, in [...]

By: Dubroy.com/blog - Wrestling with Tabs

Dubroy.com/blog - Wrestling with Tabs — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:22:51 +0000

[...] Boriss: Tabs Want to be Seen and Tab View vs. Application [...]

By: Max Kanat-Alexander

Max Kanat-Alexander — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:09:56 +0000

FWIW, GNOME only has that if you’re using Compiz–that is, if you have enabled Compiz and have a video driver that supports it (and the vast majority of people require a non-open-source driver to make that work).

-Max

By: Tab View vs. Application View « Boriss’ Blog

Tab View vs. Application View « Boriss’ Blog — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:46:41 +0000

[...] 22, 2008 I posted on Wednesday about why the new Control+Tab feature should be changed so that it both displays all tabs and looks [...]

By: Olly

Olly — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:32:50 +0000

One thing I’ve not seen explored as part of this debate is to use Exposé on OSX builds.

The idea being that the user presses the appropriate F-key and Firefox displays all the tabs as separate boxes in Exposé. Of course there might be an issue for users with a metric-buttload of tabs (how does Exposé deal with that usually? Really tiny boxes?).

I’ve also no idea if it’s actually possible…

By: Mike Beltzner

Mike Beltzner — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:21:00 +0000

The benefit of a fast-switching mechanism is, indeed, to switch quickly from the full set of things one has open. As mentioned in here, there’s a potential scaling problem, but there are some decent overflow patterns (pagination, scrolling, only showing the most recent N tabs by default with an indication that more are available, etc) which could be applied.

I’m also eager to enable the browse -> search use case, where someone starts by flipping open the fast switch UI and then wants to narrow down the selection field based on the name of the tab. Potential feature creep, although app-switchers in OS are also providing this functionality and it’s been a long-asked-for UI addition in our product.

Anyway – good stuff. Let’s get rolling on it.

By: Tabbing Through the Tabs « Not The User’s Fault

Tabbing Through the Tabs « Not The User’s Fault — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:02:56 +0000

[...] Boriss takes inspiration from application-switching shortcuts in the operating system in looking for…. [...]

By: David Naylor

David Naylor — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:00:44 +0000

Actually, after watching the first 15 or so minutes of Aza’s talk here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuELwq2ThJE

…I’m beginning to feel more and more sceptical to the whole Ctrl+Tab thing. He really does have a point about the tab switching in Firefox 1.0 being better than in 2.0 and 3.0.

By: Alex Faaborg

Alex Faaborg — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:50:25 +0000

This is great work Boriss, I like how you have merged the two use cases (quickly returning to the most recently used tab vs. invoking the UI to select something farther back in the MRU order). Some other thoughts:

-it seems like we should add a very slight delay for displaying the UI like apple does, so when you command-tab very quickly between two apps you don’t see the UI quickly appear and disappear (this happens on Windows).

-I wonder if focusing more on the upper left corner of the page would make the thumbnails easier to view, instead of downsizing the entire page.