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[–] [S] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

yes, but that requires opening them, then resizing them and moving them to be beside each other; it's possible, but not convenient

By that logic we wouldn't need tabbed browsing at all, I remember browsing without it on IE6. :P

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    But why do we split a tab instead of having side by side tabs?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    Well, it seems like splitting a tab into two is just two tabs: read: we can already have two or more tabs in all modern browsers. But “side by side tabs” describes what is actually happening.

    Honestly, this is a difficult one to name. Even though splitting a tab into two isn’t what’s going on, “split tabs” might be the best they can do. It’s just more evidence that this feature is a bit weird, and why it hasn’t been a feature in Firefox, Chrome and Safari yet. Difficult to name succinctly and correctly, and it basically starts doing window management inside of a browser window.

    Also, why stop at splitting the tab in half? Lets stack them too and have a quad view with a tab in each quadrant of the main tab.

    Edit: ohh, call them Subtabs. And put them in a tab next to normal tabs.

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