Experiment: Browser-like Tabs

[Niko Sams]

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 22:19, David Nolden <zwabel at googlemail.com> wrote:
> This seems only useful when browsing, not when working,
True.

> so it would be best
> if we had two kinds of tabs: Working-tabs and browsing-tabs, where
> browsing-tabs have your behavior, while working-tabs have the current
> behavior. It should be easily possible to spawn a working-tab from a
> browsing-tab, browsing-tabs should be uniquely marked (maybe a special
> border and read-only), and we could even automatically spawn a browsing-tab
> when the user uses navigation-shortcuts, and a working-tab when the user
> tries to edit within a browsing-tab.
I don't know if such an automatism is a good idea, too much magic that isn't
clear to the user.

Niko