Windows Vista's IE 7 Imitates OmniWeb

[Jonathan Tyzack]

Hi,

yup, there was/is a Windows browser that has thumbnail tabs and did  
so before OmniWeb was released or sneaky peeked, but whether or not  
they had the original idea is up to debate as it only started being  
referenced in one of the mammoth MacNN threads on the idea of tab  
thumbnails many, many months after it started. IIRC, some linux  
browser(s) mentioned in the same thread also had implementations as  
well but it was a long time ago...

I think this was the thread but the images that were posted in it are  
(unsurprisingly) long gone:

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=125205&highlight=omniweb+tabs 
+thumbnails

curmi's mock-ups are still there though and proved to be surprisingly  
accurate as a prediction (this was long before OmniWeb 5 was actually  
released btw):

http://homepage.mac.com/curmi/.Pictures/tabbedsmall.jpg
http://homepage.mac.com/curmi/.Pictures/tabbed.jpg

Alternatively, it may have been in this thread though I'm not willing  
to scan through 777 posts just to find out ;-) ...ah, the good old  
days of sneaky peeking!

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=154931&highlight=omniweb+tabs 
+thumbnails

Cheers,

Jonathan

On 5 Jan 2006, at 21:39, Karl J. Kuehn wrote:

> On Jan 5, 2006, at 4:04 PM, Derek Currie wrote:
>
>>> * Thumbnail tabbed browsing. Internet Explorer will finally get  
>>> tabbed browsing (a feature that Firefox, Safari and other  
>>> browsers have had for years), in which you can keep multiple Web  
>>> pages open at once, all in the same window; you switch from one  
>>> to the next by clicking little file-folder tabs at the top. But  
>>> in the Vista browser, you can also view all your tabbed Web pages  
>>> as window miniatures, so that you can jump to one according to  
>>> what it looks like (rather than just its name). A great idea.
>>
>> Window miniatures is a great idea isn't it!
>>
>> And it originated in OmniWeb years ago.
>
> 	Actually, I belive that a browser over on the windows side had  
> that feature first. I believe I mentions this at one point on the  
> OmniWeb-l or one of the beta lists before OW 5 came out. A little  
> checking arround did not net me the name of the browser, so I can't  
> provide a link, but it was there.
>
> 		Karl Kuehn
> 			larkost at vet.upenn.edu
>
>
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