On May 27, 2006, at 1:57 AM, Ruurd Koons wrote:
- keep Z-order of tabs
The issue with z-index is that it can create a lot of hidden state,
which would mean that unless users have a complete mental history of
their tab use they have absolutely no way to predict what will happen
when they close a given tab. It's one of those things that can work
well in the cases where it works, but degrades very poorly (into an
essentially random experience for users).
I know Firefox was at least looking at alternate ways of dealing with
tab closing; there's a discussion here:
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/archives/009210.html
of a slightly more complicated heuristic that tries to balance
expectations of the simple open-then-close case with the longer-term
problems of building up a lot of hidden state that users can't keep
track of.
-Stuart
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