SIGIA-L Mail Archives: RE: SIGIA-L: tabs within tabs
RE: SIGIA-L: tabs within tabs
From: Jess McMullin (jess_at_cognissa.com)
Date: Tue Oct 16 2001 - 01:56:03 EDT
Christina wrote:
"and on the web it [tabs] has reverted to its original metaphor, the
file cabinet, in which you use tabs to flip through file all showing you
different stuff."
I'm not so sure that the GUI "lens" usage is all that different than a
filing cabinet - at least I can see how someone could relate the two:
My wife is a paralegal. For her, a "file" is all the information relevant to
a particular case. Thus we get back to the GUI usage *in a
steel-and-dead-trees filing cabinet* - folders provide different views on
the *same* case (all the affidavits on the case, all the transcripts from
discovery, all the...etc.)
So while I've never seen Jakob make the argument, I can see how the people
who started using the tabs-as-lenses metaphor could have derived it from
real world use. I'd be surprised if the lens usage was just arbitrary -
anyone know Jef Raskin or other pioneering GUI folks? Maybe you could ask ;)
Using two tab metaphors at the same time has its drawbacks as others have
noted far better than I could; just don't want us to get into "young turk"
mode where our predecessors were all clueless for ignoring the real world...
cheers,
Jess
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Jess McMullin
www.interactionary.com
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