On: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs

[sergeykish]

Tabs is a form of "Multiple Top-Level Windows Interface"?

Windows MDI is a nested window manager. Tile and Cascade, move and resize, maximize, minimize. That is gone. Windows stay maximized, title bar eaten by buttons and tabs.

Browser tabs is Taskbar:

* Navigation: Ctrl+Tab vs Alt+Tab

* Position: Top vs Screen Edge

* when open a lot both were unmanageable

[qubex → sergeykish]

MDI stands for “Multiple Document Interface”. I have no idea what (Windows-specific) construct you are referring to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple-document_interface

[sergeykish → qubex]

I am not Windows developer and sure I didn't know this "Windows-specific construct". But I can google https://www.google.com/search?q=Multiple+Top-Level+Windows+I...

Also I can look on the link I post and Ctrl+F "Multiple Top-Level Windows Interface"

> Microsoft Word 2003: MDI until Microsoft Office 97. After 2000, Word has a Multiple Top-Level Windows Interface, thus exposing to shell individual SDI instances, while the operating system recognizes it as a single instance of an MDI application.