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What do you think about vertical tabs?
in your screenshot, it's just expanded, that's why.
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dobry Ja do uważam że karty pionowe dopuszczycieni !
Ale dla mnie są świetne !Dodam zrzuty:
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shaheedmalik wrote:
That's false. The viewing area is smaller on the screen even the vertical tabs are not pinned. You can activate it on this board for instance and watch the Microsoft logo shift.Vertical tabs hides title bar in Edge canary channel now.
that logo is responsive and not related to this. it just shifts a little to the right that's why it gets smaller.
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Dodam zrzut z witryny Tech Community !
Menu tej witryny też są po lewej stronie i wysuwają się jak karty pionowe i
to jest bardzo dobre i ja to lubię - nie muszę się zastanawiać na co klikam -
produktywność i ergonomia ruchu kursora jest OK !- Like said, the viewable area decreases while in vertical mode. That's the fact.
shaheedmalik "Like said, the viewable area decreases while in vertical mode. That's the fact."
Exactly right.
Using Edge Version 89.0.774.54 (Official build) (64-bit), on my 27" 1920x1080 monitor, the viewable content area under the three states:
HORIZONAL TABS: 23.5x11.5, or 270.25 square inches.
VERTICAL TABS (NOT PINNED): 23x11.5, or 264.5 square inches.
VERTICAL TABS (PINNED): 20.5x11.5, or 235.75 square inches.
On my 1366x768 laptop, the ratios are different (of course) but the results the same. In each case, vertical tabs take up more room than horizontal tabs.
The reason why vertical tabs take away viewable content area is obvious. When vertical tabs are opened, the top band of the browser (populated with tabs when horizontal tabs are in use) does not go away. Instead, the top bar is used to display the name of the currently opened tab.
The difference between horizonal and vertical is not much, unless pinned, but significant if pinned.
I don't much care about vertical tabs, and don't intend to use them because if not pinned, vertical tabs are yet another example of Microsoft's penchant for creating Whack-a-Mole dropdowns and flyouts**, and if pinned, viewable content area is reduced for no usability gain that I can see unless users open up a large number of tabs.
I recognize that quite a number of folks in this community think that vertical tabs are a "game changer" and well, just generally wonderful. Maybe so, but facts are facts. If vertical tabs are pinned in order to avoid flyout issues, then significant viewable area is lost, and if not pinned, people with accessibility issues are confronted with yet another flyout UI. Vertical tabs may be very useful for fully abled users who open 10 or more tabs on a regular basis, but that usefulness comes at a cost.
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** You can find an extensive discussion of flyout issues in another thread from 2019, noting that flyouts create a number of issues, including accessibility issues. From that discussion:
- the flyout UI is very difficult to handle by anyone who has an deficiencies in small motor control, because the flyouts are not stable in the way that the nested list in EdgeClassic is stable; and
- the flyout UI is similarly very difficult (almost impossible, in fact) to use by anyone who has hand tremor issues."
