On 25 Aug 2004, at 03:40 AM, Mark D Lew wrote:
Anyway, it sounds to me like all you're describing is a system for loading pages in background.
That's how I use it, yes.
You asked about "personality types" -- the whole "kitchen cupboards open" vs. "kitchen cupboards closed" thing -- and there's a simple adjustment you can make to the way Safari handles tabs that will favor either patient, focused, sequential web browsing on the one hand, or ADD-fueled jumping-around web surfing on the other. The brilliance of tabs as a UI element is that, with just one minor adjustment, they work well for both types of people.
For your habits, in Safari Preferences -> Tabs, you want to make sure you *don't* check the box next to "Select new tabs as they are created." (You may or may not want to check "Always show tab bar" -- personally, I find using tabs less disruptive if the tab bar is always showing, but YMMV.)
This allows you to cmd-click to open tabs in the background, as I described. (If you ever want to open a tab in the foreground for some reason, you can cmd-shift-click.)
But for someone who isn't like you, someone who actually wanted to bounce around a lot -- for example, maybe they start reading Atrios, but he links to Paul Krugman's column and they want to start reading that right away, and then they discover that Paul Krugman has a link in his column to blackboxvoting.org, and they want to go see what that's all about before they finish reading Krugman's column, and then go back to Atrios... -- this is someone who probably *does* want to check "Select new tabs as they are created".
The advantage to tabs for this kind of person over just left-clicking on links is that, when they're done checking out blackboxvoting.org and want to return to the Krugman column, they can just select the tab for that and resume where they left off -- the screen will be just as they left it and they don't need to scroll down, or wait for the page to re-render or reload.
Are you under the impression that I'm impatient about the delay while I wait for pages to load?
Isn't everyone? I mean, all other things being equal, you'd prefer *not* to wait for new pages to load, right?
If I were so impatient I probably wouldn't have stayed on that slow modem for so long, and I probably wouldn't still be on dialup now.
But that's because you're (admirably) frugal. But you don't have to pay extra for tabbed browsing -- it comes wit'.
- Darcy ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY
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