Well, it seems like splitting a tab into two is just two tabs: read: we can already have two or more tabs in all modern browsers. But “side by side tabs” describes what is actually happening.
Honestly, this is a difficult one to name. Even though splitting a tab into two isn’t what’s going on, “split tabs” might be the best they can do. It’s just more evidence that this feature is a bit weird, and why it hasn’t been a feature in Firefox, Chrome and Safari yet. Difficult to name succinctly and correctly, and it basically starts doing window management inside of a browser window.
Also, why stop at splitting the tab in half? Lets stack them too and have a quad view with a tab in each quadrant of the main tab.
Edit: ohh, call them Subtabs. And put them in a tab next to normal tabs.
Nice for people that use it I suppose. I don’t see a use case for it (nor have I ever heard of anybody doing this) but I’ll definitely give it a spin.
I can see myself using it occasionally for the same reason I do in the IDE, i.e. to easily look at two pages at the same time.
surely you can just open two browser windows for this
yes, but that requires opening them, then resizing them and moving them to be beside each other; it’s possible, but not convenient
By that logic we wouldn’t need tabbed browsing at all, I remember browsing without it on IE6. :P
But why do we split a tab instead of having side by side tabs?
What’s the difference?
Well, it seems like splitting a tab into two is just two tabs: read: we can already have two or more tabs in all modern browsers. But “side by side tabs” describes what is actually happening.
Honestly, this is a difficult one to name. Even though splitting a tab into two isn’t what’s going on, “split tabs” might be the best they can do. It’s just more evidence that this feature is a bit weird, and why it hasn’t been a feature in Firefox, Chrome and Safari yet. Difficult to name succinctly and correctly, and it basically starts doing window management inside of a browser window.
Also, why stop at splitting the tab in half? Lets stack them too and have a quad view with a tab in each quadrant of the main tab.
Edit: ohh, call them Subtabs. And put them in a tab next to normal tabs.
There’s a ton of use cases for it