Comments on: A case against tabbed browsing http://rassie.org/archives/172 Barking at technology Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:27:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Rassie’s Doghouse » Blog Archive » Webkit on Windows Mobile http://rassie.org/archives/172/comment-page-1#comment-32 Rassie’s Doghouse » Blog Archive » Webkit on Windows Mobile Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:44:10 +0000 http://rassie.org/archives/172#comment-32 [...] (Opera mini and iPhone’s browser) — the real challenge is not having some useless tab browsing, it’s about making your user happy by making him control his browser less, since that’s [...] […] (Opera mini and iPhone’s browser) — the real challenge is not having some useless tab browsing, it’s about making your user happy by making him control his browser less, since that’s […]

]]> By: tim http://rassie.org/archives/172/comment-page-1#comment-17 tim Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:29:19 +0000 http://rassie.org/archives/172#comment-17 The question naturally arises why you should use tabbed browsing if you don't like it... Personally I find it darn convenient. And even though I use xmonad and enjoy the hell out of it, I haven't found out yet how xmonad could handle my webbrowsing without tabs and without cluttering my screens. I am open for any suggestions. Still, I interpret the "one application - one task" philosophy differently: the web is what I read. If I stumble upon interesting links I open a new tab. If I want to write mail I open my mailclient. If I want to waste time in an online community I open irssi. If I want to watch a video I open mplayer or vlc. If I want to sort my photos I open digiKam. If I want to write I open vim.... You see my point? I have a fast computer with plenty of disk-space, there are thousands of wonderful apps out there... why should I spend great effort into customizing my system so that it works well together with some web-applications? They tend to lack essential features, are not customizable, horribly slow, have the most creepy terms-of-use and are above all unreliable as hell. You might be right, tabbed browsing might not be ideal for this whole web two-zero idea. But frankly, it's the web which is crap, not the browsing.... The question naturally arises why you should use tabbed browsing if you don’t like it… Personally I find it darn convenient. And even though I use xmonad and enjoy the hell out of it, I haven’t found out yet how xmonad could handle my webbrowsing without tabs and without cluttering my screens. I am open for any suggestions.

Still, I interpret the “one application - one task” philosophy differently: the web is what I read. If I stumble upon interesting links I open a new tab. If I want to write mail I open my mailclient. If I want to waste time in an online community I open irssi. If I want to watch a video I open mplayer or vlc. If I want to sort my photos I open digiKam. If I want to write I open vim…. You see my point? I have a fast computer with plenty of disk-space, there are thousands of wonderful apps out there… why should I spend great effort into customizing my system so that it works well together with some web-applications? They tend to lack essential features, are not customizable, horribly slow, have the most creepy terms-of-use and are above all unreliable as hell. You might be right, tabbed browsing might not be ideal for this whole web two-zero idea. But frankly, it’s the web which is crap, not the browsing….

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