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macOS Monterey Release Candidate Undoes Safari Changes, Reintroduces Old Tab Design
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Apple really is showing us that they're clueless about design. It's sad. They used to be the leader in UI/UX until they fired everyone who knew a thing or two about the user experience principles.
yeah new tabs were a better slicker more modern look that fit into he design language of the start page.
colors could be obnoxious on some sites so that had to go.
the compact bar is good too although it needs some more work to make it more elegant.
anyway don't care at the end of the day. I never saw the outrage and rather liked the new tab look.
colors could be obnoxious on some sites so that had to go.
the compact bar is good too although it needs some more work to make it more elegant.
anyway don't care at the end of the day. I never saw the outrage and rather liked the new tab look.
Which is the right choice. Old (better) tab design doesn't go well with color on tabs.
what a dumb, spineless decision. never listen to old fossils like darling fireball; ux shouldnt mimic old furniture, the new compact mode has been a step in the right direction! tabs was never a great idea; the concept breaks down at 10 tabs or so anyway.
Great, now my Safari looks outdated. I genuinely fell in love with how the new design looked and got used to the way it displays the active tab within less than a week (I jumped on at beta 2). And they even removed the option to disable the coloured tab bar when all they needed to do was just turn it off by default.
Sad times.
Sad times.
“Apple has admitted defeat” - pitiful narrative framing. Apple admits defeat from…Apple? How does it defeat itself? It’s going from beta to final. That isn’t defeat, thats development.
I tend to agree that the present state of tabs is not a good one
I believe that the best solution is to instead put tabs in the menubar and get rid of the tab bar. That way because its a drop-down menu you'll be able to see longer entries. Where the check-mark is in other menus put there a close button so that one can easily close that "tab".
The compact bar is still available. I don't think choice is a bad thing. The non-compact tab bar interface was a mess, especially in how it was difficult to ascertain which tab was the active tab. The old tab bar worked perfectly, and honestly didn't really need to be updated form a functional standpoint.
With that being said, I wouldn't mind if Apple rounded the edges of the old-style tabs, to better match with the Big Sur/Monterey aesthetic. I also liked that the new style changed the color of the tab bar and address bar to reflect that of the webpage you're on. Reverting to the old style has lost that feature. Hopefully Apple will add that back.
Are the people at Apple even using MacOS and iPadOS in their work, because it sure doesn't seem so at times. More and more stupid GUI flaws are introduced with every release. Feels like Apple is trying to beat Google and Microsoft.
Instead they should listen to people that don't care if design is broken? Also it's not only journalists but also experienced developers that expressed dislike for new tabs and for good reasons.
I don't know what the director of Safari was thinking with the tab changes, messing up the best tabs for the sake of change.
Sometimes a change is good. In this case I believe that an argument can be made that it wasn't good. But at least Apple is trying to tackle the tab problems that most web browsers face today.
I like the compact design, + colouring, in line with iOS for consistency. I will keep it.
I generally like Apple's new stuff. These tabs? I can deal with them but I wasn't in love with them.