Here's Finder. This is how to do browser tabs. (It's a shame Finder doesn't actually dynamically insert open windows in its side menu—it would fix about 75% of what's wrong with it.)\n\nTabs are, in general, a stupid idea. They waste vertical real estate (which is more valuable than horizontal, especially on today's widescreens), and they do so inefficiently (since titles are wide the squat) so you frequently can't see all your tabs. They're really only useful in cases where they let you pick from between a small number of options (e.g. selecting views and palettes in Photoshop or Unity)—cases where a side panel would be massive overkill. This is why a lot of more complex programs have stopped using tabbed dialogs for their preferences.\n\nHere endeth the lesson.","$updatedAt":"2024-06-05T09:23:44.629+00:00",path:"webkit-chrome-ui-problem-and-solution",_created:"2024-07-09T20:31:16.019Z",id:"2475",_modified:"2024-07-09T20:31:16.019Z","$id":"2475",_path:"post/path=webkit-chrome-ui-problem-and-solution"}}