At 10:43 AM 6/17/2003, Jyri Jokinen wrote:
When it comes to software, "everybody wants it" is a really, really good sign that the feature is necessary.
"Everybody" doesn't want tabs inbrowser. That's a fact. Look around you.
That's just semantics. Perhaps not "everybody," but certainly many people love using tabs with their web browsers. Tabs were the main "killer feature" for Mozilla 1.0 (every review of Mozilla for months talked about them), and were requested immediately upon the announcement of Safari. Tabbed browsing (of some sort) is extremely popular. The main disagreement is over where to put the code.
Implementing it in the application is the best way to do it, given the realities of the X Window System.
As someone pretty happily using a tabbing window manager - could I get closer information on this, thank you.
I don't mean to put words in anyone's mouth, but the way I read this was that the "realities" of X are that there are many different window managers out there, and that the most popular ones do *not* handle tabs themselves. When KWM, Metacity (or whatever Gnome is using by then), and other WMs shipped by default feature well-done tabbed windowing, then putting the code in the browser will be redundant. But for now, they don't, and the best way to handle everyone who wants this for their web browser - assuming it doesn't triple the size of the code (and this doesn't appear to) - is to go ahead and put the code in the browser. Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>