Mobile/Tabs

Mechanisms to Manage 'Tabs'

This section we research options for end-users to alternate between content.

DashBrowser Experiment

Currently as a prototype for 1.9 and can be tested in the N800 as it is available as an extension. Key points:

• provides a tab interface ( one more view besides the tabs you have ) that is a Dash board ( from the above view )
• End-user can see all the content tabs ( thumbnail images );
• End-user can click to reach a given tab, an animation happens, the Tab target content can be reached to focus;

Implementation notes:

• Uses canvas to render the actual live tabs as static images in DIV elements.
• Brad added a feature experiement request - double tap to brig the zoomout goes back to previous tabs space.
• Somehow slow in Linux, fast in Windows and Mac.

Download

• Uncompress and Install to chrome folder as you run 1.9 Firefox make sure you open View -> Sidebar -> Slides Demo Zoom. Open a number of content tabs, mozilla.com, etc, then click (dashbrowser). You can zoom out with button zoom out for now.