Re: Settings for IE8
- From: "Tom Lange" <trlange@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:48:14 -0800
Hi Marsha,
You wrote:
Hi
I am using Jaws 10 the latest update. I guess I don't really understand
the benefit of tab browsing. If you have a bunch of tabs open what is the
difference between that and having windows open? Not being dificult but just
don't understand.
Here's a way to look at it, and perhaps it will help you clarify things a
bit.
If I open separate browser windows for Google and the L.A. Times, for
example, I need to alt+tab between them if I want to switch focus from one to
the other. Depending on how things are set up, I'll then have two separate
entries in the Task Bar: one for Google and the other for the L.A. Times. If
memory serves, each browser window is, for all intents and purposes, like a new
browser session. So, I could proceed from my Google window, follow a link to a
search result, look at that page and follow a link to yet another page, and
another and another, without affecting the other open browser window.
At the L.A. Times window, I could follow a link to a news story, read it,
move on to yet another page such as the New York Times, then another newspaper
site, and so on, without affecting the previous path that I'd followed in the
other browser window starting at the Google page.
From a practical standpoint, opening a new tab works the same way, but
instead of using alt+tab to switch focus, I'll use ctrl+tab instead, and, if I
look at the task bar, I'll see only one entry for my browser which shows the
currently open tab.
I can't comment on what happens visually, but I would imagine that when I
open separate browser windows as opposed to tabs, I could take those separate
browser windows and place them side-by-side on screen (tile them) or overlap
them somewhat (cascade them), or send one to the background and bring the other
to the foreground.
I don't know if I can do that with browser tabs, but I would suspect that I
could if I wanted to.
I'll have to ask a sighted guy if there are advantages to tabbed browsing
versus separate browser windows. For me personally, either method is
satisfactory.
Hopefully all this didn't confuse you even further.
Tom
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