On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 05:10:28PM +0000, corvid wrote:

Johannes wrote:

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while thinking about tabs I realized that I'm not really sure what they are.

* On the one hand they could be implemented just as a GUI alternative to multiple bowser windows.

* On the other hand they could be something like temporary bookmarks that are easily accessible e.g. via buttons below the panel. That way one would only need one layout and view. The only issue here would be that one would expect a separate navigation stack for each "tab".

This mail http://lists.auriga.wearlab.de/pipermail/dillo-dev/2008-January/003685.html says the latter.

Right, Jorge already proposed that and it's really interesting to think about tabs as a navigation thing rather than a gui thing. Currently we have a linear navigation history. One can go back and forward. Perhaps tabs are nothing else than the possibility to fork navigation history at certain points. So it becomes a tree rather than a linear list.

PS I read your subject line and thought, "They're eight spaces, of course." :)

Yeah definately, what else :-)