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<span title="'Taft in a wet t-shirt contest' is the key image here.">[[Image:XKCD 214 thumb.png|right|link=http://xkcd.com/214/|alt=XKCD #214: The Problem with Wikipedia]]<span> | <span title="'Taft in a wet t-shirt contest' is the key image here.">[[Image:XKCD 214 thumb.png|right|link=http://xkcd.com/214/|alt=XKCD #214: The Problem with Wikipedia]]<span> | ||
For several years now, people have been aware of the ‘too many tabs’ problem in Firefox (and other browsers). I first started thinking about possible solutions when the issue was discussed on the [http://humanized.com/weblog/2007/06/19/humanized_puzzler_2_firefox_tabs/ <span title="Humanized Puzzler #2: Firefox Tabs, by Aza Raskin">Humanized weblog</span>]. Many insightful comments were made there, but the following solution did not hit me until a reference was made to [http://xkcd.com/214/ <span title="‘The Problem with Wikipedia’">a certain XKCD strip</span>] (pictured at right). It then hit me that XKCD did better job of visualizing the user’s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_model <span title="Mental model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">mental model</span>] than most browsers were doing. If Firefox were redesigned as a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface <span title="Zooming | For several years now, people have been aware of the ‘too many tabs’ problem in Firefox (and other browsers). I first started thinking about possible solutions when the issue was discussed on the [http://humanized.com/weblog/2007/06/19/humanized_puzzler_2_firefox_tabs/ <span title="Humanized Puzzler #2: Firefox Tabs, by Aza Raskin">Humanized weblog</span>]. Many insightful comments were made there, but the following solution did not hit me until a reference was made to [http://xkcd.com/214/ <span title="‘The Problem with Wikipedia’">a certain XKCD strip</span>] (pictured at right). It then hit me that XKCD did better job of visualizing the user’s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_model <span title="Mental model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">mental model</span>] than most browsers were doing. If Firefox were redesigned as a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface <span title="Zooming User Interface">ZUI</span>] (''à la'' [http://web.archive.org/web/20070614052016/http://rchi.raskincenter.org/demos/zoomdemo.swf this demo]), there would be a mode direct mapping of the mental model to the interface while the ‘too many tabs’ problem would be solved as well. | ||
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