IE7 Tabbed Browsing Implementation
A developer on the IE team writes about IE7 tabbed browsing implementation. His role was to re-architect IE to support tabbed browsing. This work began last year and includes building a new frame (top-level window and chrome), sorting out how to host and switch between multiple instances of the browser, and managing communication between the various internal components.
Read the blog posting
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3 Comments
The way I interpret the line in the IE blog that reads:
"the solution we settled on was to essentially push a large part of what you see in IE6 into a tab. We built a new frame to host the browsers and wrote a bunch of internal plumbing to manage them and cache state"
is (and please correct me if I'm interpreting this incorrectly) "IE will continue to be a big, bloated, mess."
As I'm reading it, I'm thinking: Why not just rebuild from scratch to do it right? And then realized who I was talking about....
Comment by Michael Potter at May 27, 2005 04:33 PM | Permalink"This core functionality is largely catch-up to other browsers which support tabs, but a necessary foundation for future work."
Hey, humility. That's worth a small bit of credit.
Comment by Axord at May 27, 2005 07:53 PM | Permalink
"Our philosophy for tabbed browsing is......", hindsight now has equivalence with intellectual progress.
Comment by CoolCatBad at May 27, 2005 11:56 AM | PermalinkCan't wait to try some userChrome.css hacks on IE7, I'm sure we will be given the opportunity.