+1. There are tabs which I am using and will use consistently all the time (mail, calendar, things like that). For awhile on Firefox I had those pinned and turned into favicon-only tabs using extensions, and it mostly worked well. Then there are collections of "on deck" tabs associated with things I'm doing. These might be documentation and the like, and mostly I don't need them to be live, I just need them to be easily available, and I'd like them to be grouped together. And then there are one-off tabs like watching a video and looking at someone's photos or reading news, where I'm just going to grind through their contents and dismiss them.
There may be new and interesting presentation ideas in there. For a collection of documentation tabs, I might be happy to freeze-dry them in a form which will let me easily come back to them, but which doesn't have to be live at all. Like PDFifying them, except I'd still want them to be resizable and stuff. I'd be very happy if I could do searches over the entire group, or have the browser show me snippets from other docs in the group which might reflect on the doc I'm reading, I'd be super happy if these docs were optimized such that I could flip between them super-duper fast. -scott On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Dean McNamee<[email protected]> wrote: > > I feel like people are using tabs as a replacement for a good history > system. At least in all current browser implementations, tabs are > "running". Even if we can make the UI scale to 1000 tabs, the 500 > flash instances that are likely running aren't really going to > perform. The making tab performance scale is a separate technical > issue that will hopefully also improve. > > Looking at a lot of these design videos, they looked more like good > ideas to me for history navigation than tab navigation. If history > was good, I think people wouldn't be so worried about "losing > something" by closing a tab. Having had bad history systems for so > many years, people are now trained to keep tabs open if they ever > might want to look at that page again in the future :\ > > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Peter Kasting<[email protected]> wrote: >> http://design-challenge.mozilla.com/summer09/ >> The results of the "Reinventing Tabs in the Browser" challenge have been >> announced. >> "Collapsible Tab Groups" includes among others some things I've proposed, >> including grouping and collapsing groups. >> "Favitabs" reminds me of some old brainstorming ideas from pamg about >> converting certain tabs into favicon buttons. >> Folks considering the future of tabs (e.g. Ben, Glen, Scott) might do well >> to take a look at some of these. >> PK >> > >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
