Hassan Schroeder <has...@webtuitive.com> > On 12/22/11 4:06 PM, m...@phonecoop.coop wrote: > > Hassan Schroeder<has...@webtuitive.com> > >> Regardless -- for the vocal objectors, do the same objections apply > >> to opening a new tab? > > > > Pretty much. That's just a smaller version of the same problem. > > > > Think of it this way: when you change channel on the tv, you > > expect it to change channel, not switch on a second tv to the > > new channel. That's crazy, isn't it? > > Not only crazy, but the Worst Analogy EVAR :-)
Rubbish - I've done far worse before. > Opening a new tab does nothing like "switch on a second computer". No - it switches on a second browser viewport, either above or below the first one. > And that's aside from the fact that I utterly hate the Flintstone > technology we call "television" -- single window, no integrated > on-screen nav -- the dumb terminal of media delivery. Appalling > that we still have crap like this in the 21st Century. Your television doesn't have on-screen navigation? We've had it in some form since Digital Video Broadcasting started over a decade ago and now it's the only option in most of the UK. There are also the usual media centres but the simple TV display is still king for a reason. Some things have multi-window displays but it still only makes occasional appearances. Why is this? I say it's because it sucks because it doesn't fit the cinema-ish use metaphor. It sucks on the desktop too. If you take the actual computer desktop metaphor, with windows as documents on a desktop, opening new windows or tabs isn't the common action in that metaphor. What happens when you read a page on your desk and turn to another page? Does the new page usually appear alongside (like a new window) or beneath it (like a new tab) - or does it usually replace the page you finished? It replaces it, unless you do something special like grab a duplicate. > Regardless, I suspect that there's a significant difference in the > user perception of tabs vs. windows, but I'd like to know if anyone > has done any actual studies. I'm aware of work on content-box tabs by Yahoo! described on http://www.useit.com/alertbox/tabs.html but not of browser-level tabs. It would be interesting. Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/ ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
