
1 The design is counterintuitive: What sense does it make that no matter your settings, the active tab is rendered with less contrast between the tab title and the background than background tabs? The active tab should be the one that pops. I have to think, continuously, about something I have never had to think about since tabbed browsing became a thing almost 20 years ago.
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Thus, trying to use the new Safari 15 on Mac (and iPadOS 15, alas), I feel somewhat disoriented working within Safari. Buttons do not work as a metaphor for multiple documents within a single window.

And my brain is very much comfortable with the particular visual metaphor of tabs in a web browser window. Tabs that look like real-world tabs aren’t just a decorative style. These new “tabs” waste space because, like buttons, they’re spaced apart. The “Separate” layout, with “Show color in tab bar” off, is the closest you can get to Safari’s previous tab design.

Safari 15 on iPad suffers similarly, but it’s the Mac version I’ll concentrate on here. Our long national iOS 15 Safari nightmare ended last month, praise be, but the lesser of the two bad Safari designs unveiled at WWDC persists and actually shipped: the new tabs in Safari 15 for Mac. The Tragedy of Safari 15 for Mac’s ‘Tabs’ Friday, 1 October 2021
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Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the new iPhones 13, new iPad Mini, Safari 15’s craptacular new tab UI, and the insightful questions posed to Kevin Durant on the Brooklyn Nets’ media day from Basketball Digest’s best NBA reporter. Friday, 1 October 2021 The Talk Show: ‘A Pretty Generic Thing You Stick in a Hole’ ★ That’s what it takes for these researchers to think about quitting Facebook? Their research shows that Facebook is doing harm to society and harm to teenagers, but what makes them threaten to leave is having their work disparaged? What a magnet for sociopaths this company is. They have congregated on group chats to decry theĬharacterizations as unfair, and some have privately threatened ThatĪngered some employees who had worked on the research, three Suggesting that the findings were limited and imprecise. Research that The Journal had partly based its articles on, This week, the company downplayed the internal Mike Isaac, Sheera Frenkel, and Ryan Mac, reporting for The New York Times:īut some of Facebook’s containment has at times backfired with “Now, more than ever, Safari is it.” Facebook in Crisis Mode Amid Wall Street Journal Exposé ★ Unlike a lot of messaging platforms - not mentioning any names here - Quill looks great on both iOS and MacOS. Messaging is their favorite way to collaborate, but not if it’s overwhelming or disorganized.

Quill is a new messaging app for teams, made by people who love messaging - many of them grew up on IRC. My thanks to Quill for sponsoring this week at DF.
