Geek & Mild by Sean Sperte

June 8, 2009

Among many other announcements, Apple released Safari 4 for both Mac and Windows today. I have to say I’m not terribly heart-broken to see the tabs-on-top UI dropped in the final version. Even though I think the idea and concept was right, the implementation was bad and left users frustrated.

Another beta frustration still exists, though: inconsistent behavior of a window resizing via JavaScript bookmarklet. If multiple tabs are open it doesn’t work at all.

Update: There are some other neat UI tweaks, including this status bar for downloading PDF documents:

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Comments

What I had against the title bar tabs is the inconsistency. If a titlebar is part of the expected UI for a window it should stay that way. It’s not something you should be messing around with on a per-application basis.

Maybe the titlebar is no longer an important part of a window in todays OS, but if that’s the case the change should be made at a system wide level. Otherwise, let’s leave it consistent across the board.

Chuck Skoda
June 8, 2009

Unfortunately if you are a tab nut like I am (often have more than 20 tabs open) the official Safari 4 reverts back to old Safari’s awful management of extra tabs. In Safari 4 beta when you selected a tab from the “extra tabs” pulldown menu the tabs would slide over to the tab you selected.

So if 12 of 20 tabs are shown, in Safari beta when you select tab #20 it displays tabs #9-20. When you then select tab #1 it slides over and shows tabs #1-12. So there is an obvious sense of order.

Now when you select tab #20 you see tabs #1-11 and #20. Annoying when you select 2 or 3 links that are relevant and you can’t easily click between tabs #18-20.

Jesse J. Anderson
June 12, 2009

Nice post!!! thanks for sharing nice info.

virtual private server
July 21, 2009

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