Diego's Rants » safari http://blog.massanti.com Confessions from a Geek Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:22:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Why the new tabs in Safari 4 are a shame… http://blog.massanti.com/2009/02/25/new-tabs-in-safari-4/ http://blog.massanti.com/2009/02/25/new-tabs-in-safari-4/#comments Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:44:13 +0000 Diego Massanti http://blog.massanti.com/?p=892 So yesterday I downloaded the new Safari 4 beta release from Apple… and yes, it is faster, the new “top sites” feature is kinda “cool”, but I happen to see way too much “Chrome like” UI features here, specially, the new tabs design. Apple clearly wanted to imitate the tabs in Chrome, but they did it wrong, because, if you have 3 opened tabs and you want to reach the 3rd one, the distance between Tab 1 and Tab 3 is more than 2/3 of your screen (or more than 1000 pixels in most standard screens).

Die hard apple fanboys have told me things like “It’s just a matter of getting used to them” or “You have to use keyboard shortcuts to switch tabs”.

Well, let me tell you that i see no reason why i should “get used” to something that I don’t like at all, and let me also tell you that when I’m browsing the web, i usually DON’T use the keyboard at all which is why I’m blaming at the new tabs. Of course, thanks god you can switch back to the old tabs scheme, but right now, the preference is hidden, so i really hope that apple adds this as a standard preference for the final release.

Anyway, a video is better than a thousand words.

Last minute note…. while editing this post, i found that Safari 4 breaks the Rich Text Editor in WordPress, but since it is yet a beta, i guess it’s ok.

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