The cool feature in IE10 that felt like a bug until I figured out it was a feature

re: The cool feature in IE10 that felt like a bug until I figured out it was a feature

app_designer — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 11:40:39 GMT

Excellent point by first comment. What purpose does a tab serve if the tab label is meaningless ?

re: The cool feature in IE10 that felt like a bug until I figured out it was a feature

Ian Boyd — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 03:08:47 GMT

I submitted as feature request feedback during IE9 previews. It's a very useful feature that Chrome already had. But now for the real test:

Open 10 tabs. Now close the 3rd tab. Without moving your mouse the the close button of the 4th tab will slide under your mouse.

Keep closing tabs until there is only three tabs left. Now move your mouse away and the tabs should resize themselves - now that they no longer have to position themselves under your mouse

re: The cool feature in IE10 that felt like a bug until I figured out it was a feature

Chris Jackson - MSFT — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 04:23:36 GMT

I don't find this feature in Chrome, and see no setting to enable it. Maybe they just don't have it on the Windows version? I'm making no claim to inventing it, just pointing out that once I discovered it, I actually stopped fighting the feature and began to enjoy it. Old habits die hard.

re: The cool feature in IE10 that felt like a bug until I figured out it was a feature

Joejoeinc — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:53:09 GMT

Chrome has had this feature for years.

re: The cool feature in IE10 that felt like a bug until I figured out it was a feature

Ali Khalid — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 12:55:49 GMT

Don't want to ruin your party but here is a post theinvisibl.com/.../chrometabs from 2009 describing the exact same behaviour in chrome. It just MS 3 years to copy this feature. I love MS, love the products (actually I am biased towards MS) but credit where credit is due.

re: The cool feature in IE10 that felt like a bug until I figured out it was a feature

xpclient — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 02:32:26 GMT

I also thought it was a bug but it's useful. You can close as many tabs by keeping the mouse pointer in the same position and then after some time, they will shrink to their normal sizes. :) Nice. Now only if the IE team will stop removing features and put back what they removed in IE9 and we would have had a winner in IE10. Unfortunately, not.

re: The cool feature in IE10 that felt like a bug until I figured out it was a feature

Richard Hay — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 02:24:47 GMT

Chris,

I love this feature and just posted a video tip of it four days ago.

www.windowsobserver.com/.../ttt-unique-internet-explorer-feature-that-allows-alternate-method-to-quick-close-multiple-tabs

re: The cool feature in IE10 that felt like a bug until I figured out it was a feature

common sense missing — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 01:26:15 GMT

If this is what counts for innovation at Microsoft these days, I feel sorry for you guys.

Look at your first screenshot. Notice something? Thats right. Empty space across the top and 4 tabs named

"Bi...". Four tabs and you already couldnt fit a four-letter word in the title. Thats stupid. Read Tufte to learn the conceptof information density. You are also completely missing on the metaphor of containment - address bar should be inside each tab not to the side. Even firefox designers know that.