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YAMAKARASU
8/29/06 12:39 A
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I just noticed the change and I love it! Thanks, guys! 
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MISSTONYA
8/28/06 11:50 P
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| I have been using the Mozilla/Netscape/FireFox Web Browsers forever! I love the capability of tabbed browsing!
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GUTERSPAM
8/27/06 10:42 A
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THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
This is awesome!
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WHooHOO!!! AWESOME! Now if it will trickle down into the teams and the mySpark area I'll be a very very happy camper. THANK YOU VERY MUCH SP!!!
And on the week I met my first weight loss goal too! Good timing! :-)
~Jeff
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Yay! Looks like the message board listings are now real links instead of JavaScript.
Thanks, SparkTeam!
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CRYSTALQUEEN
8/21/06 1:34 P
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| I don't think so, but I use the beta and haven't had any issues with it.
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| Someone did say, way back that IE didn't support tabbed browsing. My son uses tabbed browsing on IE but he has the beta version of IE 7. Is the regular version of IE 7 now available?
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CRYSTALQUEEN
8/21/06 8:10 A
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Someone way back in the thread (sorry, pants at checking names before hitting reply!) mentioned that IE doesn't use tabbed browsing. IE 7 does. I don't know how it compares to the browsers that have used tabbed browsing longer, but is loads better than its predecessors!
I have home tabs for my sparkpage, points and community, then if I want to find something whilst I'm in the middle of something else, I just jump from tab to tab.
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| That would ROCK! Love my firefox!
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I just wanted to follow up on my question about tabbed browsing. I am now using Firefox as my browser and have been using the tabbed browsing option. Thank you all for bringing this topic to my attention. Now that I'm getting used to it, I wonder how I ever did without out it.
I would say that I too would love to see tabbed browsing available on SparkPeople!
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YAMAKARASU
8/14/06 1:26 A
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| I'm another that's all for this idea. I have the habit of always middle clicking links because I like being able to switch back and forth between tabs. Or if I want to double check on something without having to leave my current page, it's more of a hassle trying to do that on the site. I'm on SP so much and I still catch myself middle clicking links that I know won't open that way, oops, lol.
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Thanks Fiddler for this info. I already have firefox on my computer but have used IE for a long time and tend to stick with-it. So by using tab browsing I won't have to have several windows of IE open to look up related or new info.
That is great.
I spoke with my son who is also computer geekish and he showed me how to use it. He also told me that IE does
have tabbed browsing in its beta version and IE users will eventually be able to use this feature as well.
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B4NAFTA, tabbed browsing is a new feature supported by browsers such as Firefox and Safari (it is not supported in Internet Explorer 6).
It lets you open multiple pages at the same time, all within the same window. You see little filetabs at the top of your browser, a bit like the tabs at the top of any individual site. This makes it easy to flip from one page to another without having to minimize windows or clutter up your taskbar with 10 different entries.
Personally, I use Firefox (on Linux) and have it set up so that when I middle-click on a link (instead of left-clicking), it opens it up in a new tab in the background. This means that when a message board site is slow, I can browse the list of topics and start opening any interesting topic in a background tab. By the time I've picked 6-7 of them to open, the first few are done loading and I can just work my way through the tabs, reading one topic at a time.
There are lots of other neat things about tabbed browsing. For example, if you have 10 different sites open in 10 tabs and want to shut down your browser without losing them, you can just bookmark all of them at once into a folder of bookmarks. Later, if you want to open them again, you just tell it to "open in tabs" and it will bring all of them up at once. I use this for my daily news. I have about 10 news sites in a folder, and every morning, I tell it to open all of them and then just browse through the tabs one by one.
In the end, it stops window clutter, avoids boring delays while waiting for pages to load, and makes it so that you don't have to scroll back down to wherever you were on a message board list after returning from reading one of the topics (You just open the topic in a different tab and close that tab when you're done. Your original tab's scrollbar is still in the right place.)
Firefox is free and has taken over a lot of market share from Internet Explorer. You can download it at:
http://www.mozilla.com/
If you're on a Mac and use Safari, just go into the options and tell it to enable tabbed browsing.
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Excuse my ignorance, but what do you mean by tabbed browsing?
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| I know it won't meet all needs. I was just throwing it out there in hopes that it would help somebody. Not as a solution to the issue.
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| While bookmarks are effective for regularly checked areas, it is not an effective solution for this issue. I find it very difficult to search or read message board posts or open random areas within the site that I would like to have in tabs. Thanks for the recommendation though, as it will hopefully be helpful to some people.
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| I have forums and threads that I check regularly bookmarked so I can get to them more easily. It took a while to set them up because I had to edit the URLs manually, but now that it's set up, I'm off like a flash...
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| I saw this post and was like FINALLy some people who understand tab browsing. I love the advantage of a tab browser and use it all the time. I hate it when I forget that this site does not have it and I open the page and it is blank. I think tab browsing would be a wonderful improvement. Thanks for putting a note on the message board about it.
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| I saw this post and was like FINALLy some people who understand tab browsing. I love the advantage of a tab browser and use it all the time. I hate it when I forget that this site does not have it and I open the page and it is blank. I think tab browsing would be a wonderful improvement. Thanks for putting a note on the message board about it.
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SQUIRRELLYPOO
8/9/06 8:24 A
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| fourthed, this really annoys me, too. The JavaScript links make it impossible to open two similar pages side by sie (like if I want to compare two different days' food habits!). Standard linking practices would be very appreciated.
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agreed!
the javascript thing is annoying - i can only view one page at a time.
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Oooh. Another vote for this. When I browse a message board, I tend to middle click on any topic that looks interesting, expecting each one to open in a new tab. Sometimes, I'll go through several index pages doing this before I go ahead and read all the individual tabs.
This keeps frustrating me at SparkPeople because I'll look up to discover that every tab is blank (because all the links were javascript, not URLs).
I agree with skigeek that the search is quite fast and impressive, though. Great work! :)
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SPARK_COACH_JEN
7/25/06 3:06 P
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Thanks for the suggestion!
Coach Jen
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I would love it if tabbed browsing could be better enabled. At the moment it appears that JavaScript is used to open new pages, but this prevents tabbed browsing except from the very top tabs within SP. As it is, I have to either open a tab from the very top level (then diving in takes time), or tunnel into a link and then back out, which there appears to be some time-out issues with. Many of the loaded pages appear to have their own URL addresses, so I don't see why tabbed browsing couldn't be enabled for these pages.
Thanks!
P.S. The message board search engine seems very capable, I'm impressed.
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