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More Details on IE7 Tabs
GraemeDonaldson writes "Another member of the IE dev team, Tony Schreiner, has revealed details of IE7's tabbed browsing implementation including the fact that the user will retain control over how tabs are handled." From the post: "Regarding script, there is no "target='_tab'" feature or any direct access to tabs from script beyond what is available with multiple windows today. We are working on balancing the default behavior for whether a window opened from script opens as in a new frame or a tab. Currently, windows that have been customized, such as hiding a toolbar or making the window non-resizable, will default to opening in their own standalone frame, whereas ordinary pop-up windows will open in a new foreground tab. CTRL-clicking and middle-clicking links will open those links in a background tab."
someone's been using firefox!!!
Get your torrents...
I failed. Beaten by an Apple zealot as well. The shame of it.
What is this middle click you speak of? I've been using Safari for a while but I can't test this because I don't see any buttons to "click" on my mouse.
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Now you can do all of this in one window:
1)Download Spyware
2)Download Adware
3)Download More Malware
4)Download your P0rn
5)Take a picture of yourself online.
All the old security problems were starting to bore me. Now I can look forward to an entire new set of problems.
Just think this time next year we will be griping about things like 'hijacked tabs' and such.
You have to smash it open, because it's in the middle.
This core functionality is largely catch-up to other browsers which support tabs, but a necessary foundation for future work.
Atleast they acknowledge it finally.
Just out of interest: last time I checked, macs only had what I would consider a middle mouse button. So how do you open a link not in a new tab?
Get a new mouse ;)
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I'm sure that Microsoft will sell IE7 as "cutting edge" software, especially since those ideas were implemented by TBE in Firefox before IE7 was even considered.
"Did you hear about the new IE7? It has tabs, that's like, totally, new technology. Only Bill Gates could come up with something so genius!"
And MS still believes they are not very useful, except they can add bloat. That's why they are now needed.
What keeps me going is my inertia.
"This isnt a 'me' post, there are a *lot* of people and businesses that have no plans to goto XP ( or server 2003 ) in the near future."
:-)
So it's a "Me, too!" post?
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
You've replaced the letter S with a dollar sign, so you must know what you're talking about.
Open-apple or closed-apple?
Information wants to be free.
Entertainment wants to be paid.
You just want to be cheap.
Microsoft will patent some small thing about tabbed browsing that 100 Firefox pluings will have done for years.