Re: Speaking of NSTabView...

[Marcus Müller]

On 20.11.2003, at 10:03, Riccardo Mottola wrote:

> on 11/20/03 7:48 AM, Jeff Teunissen at deek@d2dc.net wrote:
>
> > That's actually _extremely_ non-NeXTish. In a NeXTish UI, anything 
> > that can
> [...]
> I agree fully, I find it really anti-ergonomic and anti-intuitive to 
> have to
> "scroll" for my tabs. Also what is there first should be remain later 
> and
> viceversa. The "morphing" interfaces of Windows are bullshit.
> [...]
> I think tabs make only sense when there are a few of them they all fit 
> one
> beneath the other and you can have a fast  overview of them. Think 
> about the
> average windows control panel with 3 layes of 4 different-sized tabs 
> and
> this is NIGHTMARE.

I totally agree. Tabs shouldn't scale. If you stumble across several 
cases where you'd
need such behavior for tabs you've certainly chosen the wrong 
interface. I just checked
Apple's behavior (Panther) and they don't scale their tabs either (they 
just get clipped),
which indicates that they think quite similar about this issue.

Cheers,

  Marcus

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