It is the way I prefer it. They asked what I did not like regardless of real estate or a computer versus a tablet or phone.
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What don't you like about Safari?
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It is the way I prefer it. They asked what I did not like regardless of real estate or a computer versus a tablet or phone.
I'm just trying to understand why you would want to go to another page to change tabs when you could simply and easily switch between them with the way it's setup now. If you want it the other way, fine, just trying to see what benefit it has to add extra steps in the mix.
I would also like iPad Safari to maximize its available real estate. I don't care that it's bigger than a phone. It's not so ginormous that I feel it has space to spare. And I feel cheated when I have only one tab open (which is somewhat common for me).
And even putting full screen aside, the tabs annoy me all by themselves. I accidentally click them frequently, inadvertently changing or closing my tabs. They're too small to touch easily, but any bigger would waste even more screen. I just wish they were gone.
iPad Safari should take all the buttons from iPhone's Safari bottom bar and just put them on the top with the search bar. There is plenty of room. And tabs should be switched just like on phone, by tapping the boxes icon then picking from some kind of carousel or thumbnails.
I didn't pay $500 for a "giant iPhone" just to have Apple decide it has excess space that can be wasted on unnecessary toolbars. The whole point of the tablet is to get more screen. Every pixel wasted makes it less useful over the phone.
Edit: furthermore, the whole concept of tabs is a desktop holdover that needs to be rethought for a touch device. We're 7 iterations in here. It's time to imagine a tablet browser not designed for a mouse. It would be perfectly reasonable to do a two-finger swipe left/right to change tabs or bring up the list of open tabs. It can be fast and simple without a literal tab bar.
And even putting full screen aside, the tabs annoy me all by themselves. I accidentally click them frequently, inadvertently changing or closing my tabs. They're too small to touch easily, but any bigger would waste even more screen. I just wish they were gone.
iPad Safari should take all the buttons from iPhone's Safari bottom bar and just put them on the top with the search bar. There is plenty of room. And tabs should be switched just like on phone, by tapping the boxes icon then picking from some kind of carousel or thumbnails.
I didn't pay $500 for a "giant iPhone" just to have Apple decide it has excess space that can be wasted on unnecessary toolbars. The whole point of the tablet is to get more screen. Every pixel wasted makes it less useful over the phone.
Edit: furthermore, the whole concept of tabs is a desktop holdover that needs to be rethought for a touch device. We're 7 iterations in here. It's time to imagine a tablet browser not designed for a mouse. It would be perfectly reasonable to do a two-finger swipe left/right to change tabs or bring up the list of open tabs. It can be fast and simple without a literal tab bar.
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Maybe you would prefer chrome where tabs are on top of the address bar and much harder to accidentally press???
Either way, you aren't really loosing that much screen real estate. Maybe you miss two lines of a paragraph, but it's not like suddenly you wouldn't need to scroll just because there weren't tabs there.
Your idea of swiping between tabs is great, except without a visual representation how do I know which tabs I'm swiping between?? Many of us browse with 5, 8, 10+ tabs open at a time. If I want to go from tab 8 to tab 1 I do NOT want to swipe 8 times to get there guessing and hoping that it's on the first tab the whole time until I get there. Unlike a computer, each tab might not stay loaded due to RAM, and I don't want to swipe between 8 pages having each one load on the way to get from one tab to another. Bad implementation. Maybe it would work for someone who only has one or two tabs open at a time, but not for heavy tab users.
Either way, you aren't really loosing that much screen real estate. Maybe you miss two lines of a paragraph, but it's not like suddenly you wouldn't need to scroll just because there weren't tabs there.
Your idea of swiping between tabs is great, except without a visual representation how do I know which tabs I'm swiping between?? Many of us browse with 5, 8, 10+ tabs open at a time. If I want to go from tab 8 to tab 1 I do NOT want to swipe 8 times to get there guessing and hoping that it's on the first tab the whole time until I get there. Unlike a computer, each tab might not stay loaded due to RAM, and I don't want to swipe between 8 pages having each one load on the way to get from one tab to another. Bad implementation. Maybe it would work for someone who only has one or two tabs open at a time, but not for heavy tab users.
THIS!!!
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1639204/
Also, full screen for iPad (especially the Mini)
One thing that I do not like is that if you view search and then view images, you lose the ability to swipe left and right to view different images, specifically google search. Instead, you have to click each image individually, back, click again, back and so on and so forth. We did have the ability in ios6. Didnt really realize what that feature meant to me
That bugged me. Until someone pointed out that it's a Google thing. Try it today, and you will probably find it's fixed.
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I believe this is an improvement... for most users.
Whilst a URL full of gobbledegook is of interest occasionally, it is a distraction most of the time. All you really need to see - and see clearly - is the site you're connected to. If you actually want the full URL for whatever reason just click on it. And when you do, the probability at this point in time is that you actually want to be doing a search or going somewhere else, so the input field is helpfully preselected for you ready to be overwritten by the first keyboard press; your favourites being shown makes it a snap to go to one of your top sites at this point too.
Yeah, still don't believe it's an improvement....for me... Usually I'm cutting the URL to post to FB or something, so the couple of extra clicks to go back and forth in the addy bar annoys me slightly.... But not enough to give up my iPad