Hormonal changes/fluctuations in the mother influence the development of an embryo's nervous system; specific changes in hormonal levels at a specific point during the later parts of the pregnancy will cause the baby to be born with the predisposition towards homosexuality (and/or changes in behaviour that may be perceived as homosexuality when it really isn't, but that's a different subject).
Whether the person reacts to that disposition or not later in life may be a choice, but the attraction to the same sex that prompts that choice is definitely genetic.
Funny how you chose to hack my post into bits before commenting. Easier to try and contradict my points when you move the paragraphs out of context, I guess.
I won't fragment your comments to answer, though. It seems you weren't that keen on trying to understand the meaning of what I said as a whole -- or maybe I just used too many words. So I'll state it more simply: the address bar is inside the tab because that's where it belongs. From a coding point of view AND from a user experience point of view. The comic clearly states that Google wants to convey the message that the tabs are not related to one another -- putting the address bar above the tabs would defeat that purpose entirely. Maybe *your* reading is lacking propriety, since you've clearly missed one of the most important points of the whole thing.
And FYI, the users don't necessarily know what's best for them, either. You may want to have your address bar vertically on the left side of the screen, but that doesn't mean you should be able to do it.
If you had bothered to read the comic (or anything else about the reasons for each of the features in Chrome, really), you'd know that the tab is the primary piece of the user interface in Chrome. It was designed in a way to make sure each tab's content doesn't interfere with the other tabs, even to the point of preventing that a crashing tab from crashing the entire browser. Each tab has its own independent process.
It wouldn't make any sense whatsoever to have the address bar above the tabs in Chrome. It would be just as nonsensical as having the address bar inside the tabs in FF or IE, where all tabs are simply threads running under the same process.
Besides, it's only a "matter of personal opinion" because that's how you're used to seeing it. If Chrome were the first tab-oriented browser you had ever used, you wouldn't be complaning, because you wouldn't have anything to compare it to. Heck, you'd probably be praising it: "Nice, I don't have to open another browser window to open another webpage, this is cool!".
If Chrome really takes off and becomes widely used, I bet in about one or two years people will start asking themselves why the bar is *above* the tabs on all the other browsers.
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Homosexuality is *not* a choice, it's genetic.
Hormonal changes/fluctuations in the mother influence the development of an embryo's nervous system; specific changes in hormonal levels at a specific point during the later parts of the pregnancy will cause the baby to be born with the predisposition towards homosexuality (and/or changes in behaviour that may be perceived as homosexuality when it really isn't, but that's a different subject).
Whether the person reacts to that disposition or not later in life may be a choice, but the attraction to the same sex that prompts that choice is definitely genetic.
Funny how you chose to hack my post into bits before commenting. Easier to try and contradict my points when you move the paragraphs out of context, I guess.
I won't fragment your comments to answer, though. It seems you weren't that keen on trying to understand the meaning of what I said as a whole -- or maybe I just used too many words. So I'll state it more simply: the address bar is inside the tab because that's where it belongs. From a coding point of view AND from a user experience point of view. The comic clearly states that Google wants to convey the message that the tabs are not related to one another -- putting the address bar above the tabs would defeat that purpose entirely. Maybe *your* reading is lacking propriety, since you've clearly missed one of the most important points of the whole thing.
And FYI, the users don't necessarily know what's best for them, either. You may want to have your address bar vertically on the left side of the screen, but that doesn't mean you should be able to do it.
If you had bothered to read the comic (or anything else about the reasons for each of the features in Chrome, really), you'd know that the tab is the primary piece of the user interface in Chrome. It was designed in a way to make sure each tab's content doesn't interfere with the other tabs, even to the point of preventing that a crashing tab from crashing the entire browser. Each tab has its own independent process. It wouldn't make any sense whatsoever to have the address bar above the tabs in Chrome. It would be just as nonsensical as having the address bar inside the tabs in FF or IE, where all tabs are simply threads running under the same process. Besides, it's only a "matter of personal opinion" because that's how you're used to seeing it. If Chrome were the first tab-oriented browser you had ever used, you wouldn't be complaning, because you wouldn't have anything to compare it to. Heck, you'd probably be praising it: "Nice, I don't have to open another browser window to open another webpage, this is cool!". If Chrome really takes off and becomes widely used, I bet in about one or two years people will start asking themselves why the bar is *above* the tabs on all the other browsers.