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William Devereux
Microsoft
MicrosoftVertical tabs preview now available in the Canary and Dev channels
Tomorrow, we’re releasing an early preview of vertical tabs in Microsoft Edge. This feature, which is now available in the Canary and Dev channels, allows you to find and manage large numbers of tabs...
Hello, I would like to give my opinion regarding the design of the vertical tabs.
- Vertical tabs should not expand, this animation can be uncomfortable for the end user.
- Instead I suggest to show a preview of the tab when hovering over the web page icon. I attach an image for reference.
- The page preview should allow you to close the tab.
Thank you.
985343, these are obviously somewhat subjective and I respect what you described would work well for you. I just want to note for the thread that for me, the chief benefit of vertical tabs is to be able to have many tabs open and still be able to read the name of the tabs without hovering over each. For this to have any value to me, it requires the expanded view on the left to see the text. A common use case for my team is testing our own web development, so all the tabs have the same favicon and may even start with the same first word (the domain name), so it's only when the tab pane is wide enough that the text can be long enough to read the unique page name to know what each tab is.
A colleague who's also testing using the Vertical Tabs features in an entirely different way, loves it for the same reason: she pointed out that now when she's shopping on Amazon, she can have open 20+ tabs for comparing products an Amazon and still see all the tabs and their names, something that was impossible before vertical tabs (they'd all be squashed together at the top). Like in my example, they all have the same Amazon favicon, so unless she can see the text, she can't distinguish the tabs from each other.
So even if providing an option like Christian requested, please also preserve the ability to see the text.
A colleague who's also testing using the Vertical Tabs features in an entirely different way, loves it for the same reason: she pointed out that now when she's shopping on Amazon, she can have open 20+ tabs for comparing products an Amazon and still see all the tabs and their names, something that was impossible before vertical tabs (they'd all be squashed together at the top). Like in my example, they all have the same Amazon favicon, so unless she can see the text, she can't distinguish the tabs from each other.
So even if providing an option like Christian requested, please also preserve the ability to see the text.