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Hyatt Discusses Tabs

Posted by michael on from the insert-tab-a-in-slot-b dept.

Llywelyn writes "Über Geek David Hyatt (who, among other browser projects, works on Safari) has posted an interesting discussion about tabs, what he prefers, what works, and what doesn't."

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  1. IE by eadz · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Pretty soon, Internet Explorer will be the only browser without tabs. I wonder how long it will be before Microsoft realises that - yes - tabs are good.

  2. Re:Tabs seem to... by corian · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What is more of a debate where I work is if pagination is better than scrolling.

    Scrolling, for practicality reasons.

    Many of us who still dial-up for internet access like to open a bunch of pages to read later, off-line (when we're not paying by-the-minute). That's easy to do with scrolling, all-on-one-page texts. Paginated texts, you have to first have to notice that they ARE paginated, and then go through and open each individual one, and then pay attention to actually read the in order. Much more of a hassle.

    The only benefits I've seen of pagination is that it increases the number of ad viewings (because each page in a pagination can have a new ad). But that only benefits the site, not the user. IS there a user benefit to pagination?