Re:Web Apps on macOS Sonoma 14 Beta
by crazygringo on Thursday June 08, 2023 @01:51PM
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Yeah this is a real UX conundrum, because the whole windows/tabs paradigm right now is kind of confused.
Like when I use Google Docs, I've usually got several open as separate tabs in my browser. If I wanted Docs as a webapp, it wouldn't have the tabs functionality anymore, which would make it immediately useless. In the way that every IDE or Photoshop now use tabs inside the app.
We're at this place now where I actually wish tabs weren't handled by applications but rather by the OS, together with windows. Let me create a window that has three Chrome tabs, a Safari tab, a Terminal tab, and a Preview tab. Another window with a Word (installed) doc tab, an image in Photoshop tab, and several Finder tabs.
The fact that web apps can't be tabbed is almost this weird step backwards.
Like when I use Google Docs, I've usually got several open as separate tabs in my browser. If I wanted Docs as a webapp, it wouldn't have the tabs functionality anymore, which would make it immediately useless. In the way that every IDE or Photoshop now use tabs inside the app.
We're at this place now where I actually wish tabs weren't handled by applications but rather by the OS, together with windows. Let me create a window that has three Chrome tabs, a Safari tab, a Terminal tab, and a Preview tab. Another window with a Word (installed) doc tab, an image in Photoshop tab, and several Finder tabs.
The fact that web apps can't be tabbed is almost this weird step backwards.