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To my eye the tabs in Chrome make more sense visually too. The tabs appear connected to the document being viewed and not to the address bar like they do in Sa
by dowskitest 17y ago
To my eye the tabs in Chrome make more sense visually too. The tabs appear connected to the document being viewed and not to the address bar like they do in Safari.
- natrius 17y agoApple tried to fix that by placing the tabs on top of the address bar like Chrome does. People complained. It looked a little funny. http://www.macworld.com/article/139026/2009/02/safari4tabs.html http://www.macworld.com/article/139026/2009/02/safari4tabs.h...
- tvon 17y agoI kind of liked the Apple take on it, but I think Chrome out did them by making the tab only take up most of the vertical titlebar space. If Apple did that, I think it would have worked out better.
- pkulak 17y agoI really liked those Safari tabs. I guess I was in the minority though. It prepared me very nicely for Chrome tabs, though.
- carbon8 17y agoThe top tabs do indeed make a lot more sense in a number of key aspects. But it's important to remember that the entire concept of tabs in OS X windows has long been criticized by a contingent of hardcore apple fans who argue it breaks from the one-document-per-window model. And they have a point, and it is part of why tabs in OS X are hard in general. Plus, in the safari beta they were pretty ugly and visually messy.
- joe_the_user 17y agoFascinating how history can limit a UI designers choices...
- pvandehaar 17y agoIt's more of ideology and design principle.
- cmelbye 17y agoI loved those tabs, and I was really annoyed when they removed them in the next beta after that. I stuck with the same beta for months because of that.