[Camino] [SOC] Improvements to the Camino tabbed-browsing experience

[David Siegel]

I think a great solution here consists in a compromise between  
grouping tabs by rows and and using drop-down menus to access  
individual tabs. Adding rows of tabs is appealing because it lets us  
see many tabs easily at once, without having to click on rinky-dinky  
menus on the periphery; however, users have come to expect off-window  
UI access to come from such rinky-dinky menus. I propose that when  
tabs overflow the window width, we add arrows to the left and right  
edges of the tab bar, allowing a smooth scroll of either half of the  
bar or the entire bar of tabs, bringing offscreen tabs onscreen and  
vice versa. See Dashboard's widget tray for an example - when you  
have more widgets than can fit on your screen, you get those arrows  
that scroll the entire widget tray in a smooth motion.

David


On Jun 13, 2006, at 9:40 AM, Michael Watson wrote:

> Can't agree more with this. Two rows of tabs is ridiculously clunky  
> and not like anything else in the OS that I can think of, except  
> crappy X11 apps.
>
> For those who want to set Camino apart from said browser:
>
> The drop-down arrow also did not originate with Safari, recall that  
> the toolbar itself started this convention, with an identical UI  
> widget for accessing additional toolbar buttons when the window  
> isn't wide enough. (See Preview for an easy example.)
>
>
> --
> mikey-san
>
> On 12 Jun, 2006, at 20:44, Adam Randall wrote:
>
>> From an HIG standpoint, I don't think that makes sense. You'd have  
>> to have a new bookmark "bar" for each line, and it'd get kind of  
>> weird looking. The whole idea of a "tab" would probably have to be  
>> reworked so it didn't look like a "tab" and probably more of a  
>> bookmark like thing.
>>
>> As for the drop-down at the right, that's a standard across the  
>> OS, including Safari.
>
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