This sums up my opinion on the matter nicely, good article and I agree with it.
Full Article: http://osnews.com/story/21056/Safari_4_Beta_UI_Disaster "A few days ago, Apple surprised everyone by releasing the first beta of Safari 4, the company's latest version of their WebKit browser. While I generally love Safari on the Mac (my browser of choice on that side of the fence), I've never felt as comfortable with it on the Windows side of things. In any case, this latest beta has made a very bold move in the interface department, and I'm sad to say that it's not for the better. Let me explain where it went wrong for Apple. When Google pushed out Chrome, it had the tabs in a different place than most other browsers. Wait, let me correct that - it had the browser controls in a different place. Instead of the browser controls being located atop the tabs, they were placed inside the tab. The result was that each web page had its own set of controls. The difference between "moving the tabs" and "moving the browser controls" may seem arbitrary, but as it turns out, it seems to explain perfecty well why Safari 4 is such a UI disaster. You see, everybody on the web focussed on the tabs in Chrome being part of the titlebar, while in fact, they are not. When you run a Chrome window in a non-maximised state, the tabs are actually underneath the titlebar; only when you maximise a Chrome window do they appear to be part of the titlebar. I specifically say "appear", because the tabs are actually an overlay. In Chrome, the browser controls have become part of the web page, which from a web application perspective makes perfect sense: the browser buttons and address bar, in essence, are part of the web application. In other words, each tab in Chrome is an "application", one stacked atop another. In any case, there is a clear distinction between the titlebar and tabs, not only functionally, but also visually. The titlebar and window frame in Chrome are Aero Glass, while the tabs are content-coloured. This makes the distinction between the two perfectly crystal clear." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
