RE: Settings for IE8
- From: Adrian Spratt <Adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 19:12:10 -0500
One difference is the time saved in loading and closing tab pages. Each time
you open a new IE window, you're also loading IE. With IE8's tab feature,
you're working with a single use of IE no matter how many webpages you open.
so the only time involved is for the new page to open.
Also, you can choose between opening a new webpage in the same window with
enter and using control-enter to open a new webpage without starting a new
IE window. I don't recall if this was new with IE8, but it was new to me.
It's a very useful feature that enables you to control just how many
webpages you have open at one time.
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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Tom Lange
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2011 5:48 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Settings for IE8
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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