IE7 Tabs Confirmed

16 May, 2005 at 9:49pm ET Article published in Tech

The latest entry in the Microsoft Internet Explorer Weblog has confirmed that the next version of Internet Explorer will have a tabbed browsing feature.

Some people have asked why we didn’t put tabs in IE sooner. Initially, we had some concerns around complexity and consistency… will it confuse users more than it benefits them? Is it confusing if IE has tabs, but other core parts of the Windows experience, like Windows Media Player or the shell, don’t have tabs? I think we made the wrong decision here initially, and we’re making the right one now. I’d like to ask you to post a comment with your favorite or most critical IE add-ins… we want to make sure IE7 works great with them.

Source: MSDN

Comments

16 May 2005 ~ 9:58pm Linc I'd like it to work with CSS correctly and be otherwise standard-compliant. I'd chalk that one up in the "miracle" catagory.
16 May 2005 ~ 9:58pm Medlock Firefox changed my life... I cannot operate without tabs.
16 May 2005 ~ 10:01pm entropy Agreed. Though it started with MyIE2 for me. Same idea, though. I've got Firefox so finely tuned now. I absolutely hate using IE. Even at school, I try to mouse gesture over to the next tab, or rocker-gesture to close/open. It's kind of amusing when friends look over at me frowning and banging the mouse
16 May 2005 ~ 10:52pm jared I bet IE7 wont have Adblock though. I live by that plugin.
16 May 2005 ~ 11:10pm GrayFox 3% of firefox users switch back to Ie. 2% get hijacked again and switch back to firefox
Everyone else remains because of awesome plugins and the download manager. Somethign microsoft thinks users doesnt want.
17 May 2005 ~ 10:58am a2jfreak Oh please. Anyone can just make up statistics . . . 40% of Americans know that.

GrayFox wrote:

3% of firefox users switch back to Ie. 2% get hijacked again and switch back to firefox
Everyone else remains because of awesome plugins and the download manager. Somethign microsoft thinks users doesnt want.
17 May 2005 ~ 12:50pm GrayFox :P of corse but im canadian 103% of all canadians know that. [/fake statistics]