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Tabs for Safari
hexgrid writes "A dream come true! Blacktree, Inc. has released Pith Beta 2,
'a utility for Safari that tracks the currently open sites and
displays them in a window.' It's not exactly tabs as we know them in
other browsers, but serves the same purpose with the added bonus of being
more 'Mac-like.'"
Reads "Sarari" instead of "Safari"
Just look at some of the crazy shit those hopped up hippies have put out!
Neck_of_the_Woods
#/usr/local/surf/glassy/overhead
There is a discussion about Pith on MacSlash.
In other news, Apple has updated it's iMac product line...
-- I love the smell of Blue Screens in the morning.
Prepare to be "Cease and Desist"-ed. If Apple's planning on releasing Tabs themselves, they'll shut this down. If not, they'll let it live. They don't like other people "stealing their thunder" and accomplishing something they're working on - kinda kills the Keynote where they announce theming or whatever two years after it's been done by a third party.
Remember the iPod TV Remote Control addon that Apple requested be killed? It'll be cool when Apple comes out with their version, but they're SO. DAMN. S L O W !
Read the article. It's about the use of ecstacy by japanese businessmen.
Such is the infinite Grace of Popeye.
Um.. and if pith crashes, can safari relaunch it?
If there should be tabs for safari, then it should be in the browser somehow, not as a second hand utility. By making it a second hand utility, they become two systems that become dependent on each other. No optimization, no good integration. Look at mplayerosx. It's one app that controls the other. It jsut doesn't feel.. seemless.
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ping -f 255.255.255.255 # if only
Tabs are nice and all, but what Safari really needs us Keychain utilization and stability fixes.
Learn to Play Go
Before Safari came along, I used Mozilla and rarely if ever used the tabs feature. I'd rather open a new window and then close it or minimize it if I didn't need it right away. The mozilla tabs were simply too buggy for me to bother with. I hope Apple works on compatibility issues before it spends time on designing tabs that work. d.
so which is it
I'll just toss this on the pile: Seriously, in the name of all that is holy, Slashdot editors.. get some advanced spell checking technology. Do it. Do it now. You need it. Badly.
If Jesus wants me it knows where to find me.
** An obvious way to _export_ bookmarks
- Using Eterm/Terminal/Xterm to cd, cp, grep is a work-around not a way in a GUI program.
- When I realized this I immeadiately switched to Chimera before I really built up a bunch of bookmarks.
- In the process I tried to manually maul the bookmark.xml file. Don't even try. It's cluttered with a bunch of other stuff: history, your IP address, blah blah.
** A bookmarks file that just has bookmarks. I don't want my IP address and surfing history burned on to a backup that I throw into a corner of my work disastter.
** Tabs: I was going through serious withdrawl for the last week.
** Nested bookmark folders: How else are you going to keep your pr0n seperate from the mountains in your pics directory? Although if you insist on using it, create a new folder then click on the button bar icon, then drag the folder to the right pane if you want to add a folder to the button bar... Wait! Wait! I'll bet I could use Property List editor to duplicate that stupid button bar entry, rename it and then... oh my god! where did my bookmarks go. What are they doing in history. Ack cough choke. Please, please, please Mr. Jobe, tell me how to move things from history to bookmarks.
** Better bookmark control in general. Creating a new folder in the left and _having to_ drag it to the right pane is the only movement choice (the one time you can do it). People are very used to being to drag things on top of things (e.g. a folder or Rendezvous or whatever on the left) and people are very used to having a hierarchical view (e.g. Windows (not internet) Explorer's left column)
Whatever Apple could come up with will be better than this, because it would actually be part of Safari. Do you think they built scripting into Mac OS just so that they could sue people who use it?
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something" - Plato
whatever man
As a side note, now that I've been using Safari for several weeks, I find that I'm not having a lot of "no tabs" withdrawal symptoms, but I am having "type ahead in browser window" withdrawl. Every time I have to use the mouse when surfing at a place like Yahoo, a little piece of me is sad...
Babar
Why not just use the Window drop menu to see which pages are open?
I want a Pith for everything -- a taskbar that displays an icon for each window that's open.
My one big problem with OSX right now is that it's too hard to switch between windows of different apps. Since I often have a bunch of terminals, several Mozilla windows, plus other random stuff open, I need to do this often. Mozilla's tabs make it easier to get the Moz windows, at least. But I'd like it to handle all apps...
-Esme
I recently started using the fluxbox wm on other *nixes and I must say that I really like the tabs feature. This is applied to all windows and not just web browsers. Since OS X doesn't have virtual desktops, I would find this even more useful to organize the plethora of windows that I have open at any given time. Check it out at fluxbox tabs.
I still think that most of us want the real tabs into Safari. To make it happen you should consider signing this petition.
It's the "Window" Menu with little pictures! Wow, this thing is great!
...but not as we know them.
Apple has stated that developing apps for or that include Safari is not recommended since they anticipate a lot will change between now and when they release vesion 1.0.
It'a kinda like the old drop-down, tear-off App Switcher in Mac Os 8/9.
The tab interface still needs significant improvement on all the browsers. Quite often I want to close a tab by clicking on the little x but instinctively move my mouse up an extra inch and close the window instead. There go all them pages I opened up.
The only reason I still use tabs is because of good old ctrl-t and ctrl-f4.
What's with the AMD logo on this story?
I don't get the need for tabs. If you use the dock to handle your documents and apps, doesn't it provide the same benefit that tabs are supposed to provide. I just don't see how tabs integrate into the greater design philosophy behind the Aqua interface. Looking at Safari as part of a greater integrated UI, the idea of tabs seems remarkably out of place.
ummm, why is this classified under amd???
Same here. I couldn't care less about what GUI purists think. Tabs are part of how I work now. And they'll continue to be until someone comes up with a better idea. Nothing else thus far allows me to have several pages of research from various sources open in one browser, everything available at a glance.
That's what I do about once a week ;)
IMHO tabs is probably one of the biggest UI blunders out there these days. Sure, it's all fun and games if you are running at 1600x1200, but most luser folks run at 1024x768. At that kind of resolution if you have more than handful of tabs in the same window, the tabs are crunched so closed together you can hardly read the title. So what's the point?
I don't see the point of this whole Windows-within-a-window deal. It's not like you can actually read anything besides the active tab anyway. If you have Safari's SnapBack, you're not going to need tabs to help you keep track of where you are.
Besides, if you bothered to read Apple's Safari page at all--or watched the keynote for that matter--you'll know that Safari is built for _speed_. Keep the Netscape/Mozilla-style bloat out.
Obviously the post is actually an 'Apple will switch to AMD' rumor disguised as a lame story about Safari.
I like PITH tabs better than Chimera/Moz tabs! They're just much more efficient/good. Instead of shrinking the text area, it just increases the window, which eliminates the "But if you have more than 4 tabs open they're useless cause you can't read them!" problem. In fact, thanks to PITH, I've ditched Chimera in favor of Safari.