Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 4th Mar 2010 13:12 UTC, submitted by Infamy

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Or better yet make the tabs "panel" dragable around the window just like the haiku menu
I can see how people can be comfortable with different layouts (or full on shortcut keys in the cause of some) I think that sort of configurability is what is really needed not fancy themes like seems to be the trend (seen firefox 3.6 anyone)
Edited 2010-03-04 15:27 UTC
RE[2]: Comment by Kroc
by StephenBeDoper on Thu 4th Mar 2010 16:23
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Or better yet make the tabs "panel" dragable around the window just like the haiku menu
Somewhat OT: there was an old (R4, I think) app for BeOS called ActiveApp, it more-or-less did what you described in an application-agnostic way. It was a free-floating vertical tab bar, listing all of the child windows for the currently-active application - clicking one of the tabs/buttons would bring that window to the front.
Sadly, all of the download links seem to be dead so I never got a chance to try it in Haiku.
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This’ll make or break Haiku. People will be drawn to the platform because the web will work as well as anywhere else, and stay for the native apps.
I would love to see something a bit more radical as far as browser layout though. I feel the browser tabs, location and buttons should go on the _bottom_ of the window. I always thought this was a more natural, obvious place for navigation as it moves content closer to the top of the page, and the location bar also works as a status bar, telling you the current location. I also find it easier to look at the bottom of the screen, below the reading line, than at the top of the screen which is further away.