On 23 Aug 2004 at 17:57, Mark D Lew wrote: > On Aug 23, 2004, at 3:35 PM, Owain Sutton wrote: > > > My successes in the latter have all been down to tabbed browsing - > > nobody can ignore that. > > I've been pretty successful at ignoring it. Ever since I got onto OS > X and Safari last fall, Darcy has been trying to tell me how tabbed > browsing is going to change my life. I can't even remember what the > reason was, but I do remember that whenever it is described to me my > reaction is always, "who cares".
I know many people who said "who cares" for months, even years, and then actually tried it and then said "Oh! Now I get it!" > I'm not trying to argue against it, mind you. If everyone else in the > world thinks it's wonderful, that's great. I'm just rebutting your > claim that nobody can ignore it. If you like re-using a single window for every document, and the lag time it takes to re-render when you go back, and if you don't mind the proliferation of multiple windows when you want to have lots of web pages open at once, then I guess it wouldn't be much of an advantage. But since I've *always* read the web in a fashion that made multiple windows annoying, tabbed browsing was a huge annoyance. Some of my typical browsing scenarios: 1. reading Salon.com: I open the main page, then read down through it and open in a separate tab each article that I want to read. 2. Amazon.com research: run a search, say "Schumann chamber music," and open each individual item from the results in its own tab. Then use the BOOKMARK GROUP OF TABS feature to save the results. 3. Google a topic, such as "Handel Alcina," and then open each article of interest in its own tab. Then bookmark the group of tabs (including the Google search results) for later reference. These things are just not doable in IE, and it would kill me to have to give them up. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
