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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Tabbed Browsing usability issue
From:       Doug Hanley <hanleyman () adelphia ! net>
Date:       2002-08-01 21:19:29
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On Wednesday 31 July 2002 10:10 am, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> Hi People,
>
> I've seen something in tabbed browsing which I think is IMHO a wrong
> thing...
>
> When clicking "Open a New Tab" to open a URL in a new tabbed inside
> Konqueror, the first part of the data is received (html, jpg, etc) and then
> the tabbed window is open..
>
> Thats wrong. Why? pretty simple. Lets say a user is clicking on a
> "slashdotted" web site - since the site is slashdotted - he won't see any
> new tab until something is received or a time-out occures. Since the end
> user doesn't know about that - he will keep clicking to open a new tab -
> and by the time something will come up - he'll have tons of new tabs in
> Konqueror.
>
> My suggestion - open a new tab first, and then get the data.

You see, we actually do load the data after creating the tab.  Whats done 
before tab creation is the determination of the mimetype, which we must 
contact the server for.  Thats why on slashdotted sites, tabs often appear 
very belatedly.  Now its not technically just as easy as saying, oh create 
the tab first, then find the mimetype, because of the way QTabWidget works.  
Fortunately me and Zack Rustin are planning on rewriting that soon, so we can 
work that in there.

-- Doug Hanley

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