July 15, 2009 at 11:49 a.m.My version of the replacement tab for FireFox
Hello!
Recently I came across articles about the Design Challenge from Mozzilla Labs. I looked at the presented videos with options for taba substitutes. Some liked, some not. Although the competition has already come to an end, but I also decided to submit my version of replacing tabs to the court of habra-spectators.
The main idea, of course, is to make a clear and convenient tool for managing open sites.
As the basis of my concept, I took a ready-made development called “Express Panel” (as it is called in Opera). The bottom line is to group several pages of one domain (for example, several open Google pages).
It looks something like this (this is a prototype and I do not pretend to be a designer):
Naturally, there should be as many cells displayed as there are open sites (in the figure I just showed how it would look in the total mass of open sites). The cell where the site is located and which has several pages open is highlighted in a different color and, for example, in the corner the number of open pages for this domain is displayed.
After the user moves the mouse cursor over such a cell, a block will open containing cells of open pages associated with the domain. Example in the figure:
If there are more open pages for a domain than, for example, 12 pieces, then in this case the thumbnails are converted into a list with page headers.
In the group, you can close both individual pages and the entire group (there are crosses in each cell). By the way, the location of the crosses is not random. This is to ensure that the user does not accidentally close the entire group.
How to call the panel itself? Well, there may be several options, but the most convenient, I think, is to make a way in which the user moves the cursor to the left edge of the browser window, after which the panel either immediately opens or a shortcut appears that you need to click on to open the panel. About the way one of the display modes of the taskbar is arranged - when the panel is not needed, it creeps down when needed, move the cursor and it appears.
Recently I came across articles about the Design Challenge from Mozzilla Labs. I looked at the presented videos with options for taba substitutes. Some liked, some not. Although the competition has already come to an end, but I also decided to submit my version of replacing tabs to the court of habra-spectators.
The main idea, of course, is to make a clear and convenient tool for managing open sites.
As the basis of my concept, I took a ready-made development called “Express Panel” (as it is called in Opera). The bottom line is to group several pages of one domain (for example, several open Google pages).
It looks something like this (this is a prototype and I do not pretend to be a designer):
Naturally, there should be as many cells displayed as there are open sites (in the figure I just showed how it would look in the total mass of open sites). The cell where the site is located and which has several pages open is highlighted in a different color and, for example, in the corner the number of open pages for this domain is displayed.
After the user moves the mouse cursor over such a cell, a block will open containing cells of open pages associated with the domain. Example in the figure:
If there are more open pages for a domain than, for example, 12 pieces, then in this case the thumbnails are converted into a list with page headers.
In the group, you can close both individual pages and the entire group (there are crosses in each cell). By the way, the location of the crosses is not random. This is to ensure that the user does not accidentally close the entire group.
How to call the panel itself? Well, there may be several options, but the most convenient, I think, is to make a way in which the user moves the cursor to the left edge of the browser window, after which the panel either immediately opens or a shortcut appears that you need to click on to open the panel. About the way one of the display modes of the taskbar is arranged - when the panel is not needed, it creeps down when needed, move the cursor and it appears.