Re: [Epiphany] Tabs options

[Mike <mike redtux demon co uk>]

On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 13:59, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> > OK - didn't see this before (or hear of it which is surprising)
> > 
> > My main thoughts are
> > 
> > 1. The HIG talks about "several inherent usability problems" - which
> > are?
> > 
> > 2. No mention of usability problems with SDI, which there are many,
> > keyboard navigation, screen space limits leading to too many mouse
> > clicks, more difficult to edit /view more than one file at the same
> > time.
> > 4. Just generally I hate SDI in applications, (wish OO, abiword,gnumeric
> > didn't do it)
> 
> This seem like a better topic for usability list. Prolly Daveb will be
> able to give better answer then me anyway.
> 
> > 3. Tabbed browsing is THE main plus point quoted in favour of
> > galeon/mozilla/epiphany as opposed to ie
> 
> Tabbed browsing doesnt necessarily mean MDI. As I said I tend to consider
> it more like a tool for threaded browsing ... (and I've seen it quoted like that
> at least in one of these IE/mozilla comparisons).
> 

I know, but everyone else was associating the two.

BTW, could you clarify what you mean by threaded browsing, not a term I
have come across. My understanding of threaded anything would be a
sequential related listing like a threaded list in mail.

> Marco
>