John Udell has an interesting opinion piece on Mozilla, InfoPath and Flash and their respective roles as clients or as parts of a client-side interface, Why Mozilla matters .
I notice that John, too, prefers Firebird as his browser of choice. Internet Explorer has some serious catching up to do. Tabbed browsing is routine in Mozilla and in Firebird and is a beautifully effective piece of interface design. The absence of tabbed browsing in Internet Explorer makes it much less convenient than its competitors for heavy browser use.
John, however, omits to mention SVG as a natural choice for use with the XML documents produced by XML Web services. I guess that demonstrates that SVG evangelists have work to do to spread the news about SVG's advantages.
Posted by Andrew Watt at October 14, 2003 02:52 PMIt's not as convenient, but tabbed browsing can be approximated in IE. Shift-Click any link to open the linked page in a new browser window. If you are using Windows, the task bar then effectively acts as your tab. Use Alt-Tab to navigate between the Windows by keyboard.
I've been doing this for as long as I can remember, but having it as a core part of the browser sounds much cooler.
Posted by: Wayne at October 15, 2003 01:19 AM