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Originally Posted by rogerg
but I think it's dumb of MS to make tabs a IE7 thing. Why aren't they a OS thing? That is, why when you open up one program with multiple files don't they appear as tabs along the bottom, rather than multiple task bar icons? Examples are MS Word, MS Access, MS IE 6.... where multiple documents in the same application take up task bar space.
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That's up to the application designer, not the OS. What you're describing very similar to the way most programs, incuding Word etc, operated in the Win3.1 days. It was called MDI from memory. I don't like it for programs like Word that update/save data. It's fine for browsers and the way Excel uses tabs, where they relate to worksheets within a single speadsheet.
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Originally Posted by rogerg
They did a half baked solution in Win XP with the grouping thing on the taskbar.
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Yeah, I hated that and turned it off.
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Originally Posted by rogerg
I'm sure once someone else builds an add-on for the OS to do that.
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..... it will break a lot of programs. The UI belongs to the app, not the OS. It's the program that has all the triggers for UI widgets. Don't forget that there are may programs out there that, for one reason or another, are strictly single-threaded, meaning one UI = one .exe, they wouldn't handle it at all.
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Originally Posted by rogerg
My 2c worth :-).
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You overpaid.
