Tabs revisited & Chimera

[J A]

It has a long ways to go - preferences, fields and forms, aquafiying some
web widgets... But gosh it's so goddamm fast!

-- james

> Message: 16
> Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 17:38:22 -0700
> Subject: Re: Tabs revisited & Chimera
> From: David Hampson <dhampson at pullman.com>
> To: OmniWeb List <OmniWeb-l at omnigroup.com>
> 
> On 4/9/2002 3:40 AM, the N.S.A. observed "Patrick Armbruster"  making the
> following statements:
> 
>> Chimera sports tabs for browsing multiple pages in the same
>> window. But while they adhere to the standard tabs we know from
>> Mac OS X' Aqua interface, I think they're not really good for
>> browsing the web. Mozilla's tabs are 'better'. Aligned to the
>> left. Much better than centered, because I hit the right tab the
>> first time I try, while on Chimera I always have to look. What
>> do other people think about it?
>> 
>> Link: http://chimera.mozdev.org
>> 
>> Patrick
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
> 
>   I just tried Chimera, and was totally amazed.  If this is slow, what was
> is like before?  It's able to handle two of my sites (one experimental) much
> better than Omni (http://cub.wsu.edu/wsualpine and
> http://cub.wsu.edu/wsulapine/AlpineDemo  The latter only seems to work in
> Macintosh browsers. )
> 
>   While their css and javascript seems to be much better than Omni,
> Chimera still has a ways to go.  It crashed twice in 15 minutes.
> 
>   I'm not too used to tabbed browsing yet, but I think I prefer Chimera's
> method.  Chimera seemed more intuitive and flexible, once I found the menu
> command.
> 
> -Dave
> 
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