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Luobot -

Elina,

Sorry I wasn’t being clear. I should have said, “tabbed browsing” rather than just tabs.
Here are the Chinese characters that I found to say this: 选项卡浏览. I’m not sure if this
is the generally used translation of “tabbed browsing” or just Microsoft’s translation for
PRC simplified characters. For Taiwan, Microsoft uses: 索引標籤式瀏覽. Perhaps someone else
knows if this is the current, commonly used, popular term. It seems like too much of a mouthful to
me.

Fortunately, Gato provided an excellent explanation of what I was referring to. Just to be
perfectly clear, if you look the graphic in Gato’s post, you can see 3 tabs open in the browser
window.
From left to right, they are:
Cnn.com – Breaking news, U.S., World …
The New York Times – Breaking news, World …
WSJ.com – U.S. Home

When the [X] in the upper right hand corner of the window is clicked, then the entire browser
window, including all 3 or 300 tabs, will close. This is a function of the browser rather than how
your site is coded. Both Firefox and IE7 has this functionality. Since this is a feature of the
browser, it’s not necessary to code your site any particular way. Whichever way you code it, the
user can open links in a new “tab” of the same window rather than as an entirely new window.
Then the user can easily move from one tabbed screen to the next and back without opening,
closing, or reloading pages again and again. It’s a more efficient way of working, I think, and
it’s probably why tabbed browsing is so popular that Microsoft felt compelled to copy it from
Firefox.

However you decide to code your site, some will be unhappy with links that open in the same
window, and some will be unhappy with links that open in a separate window, but you can tell users
about tabbed browsing and that it will solve their problem either way. For anyone not familiar
with tabbed browsing, I suggest just trying it out, and it will become quickly clear. For a free
download of Firefox, see here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

(Full disclosure: I use Firefox and I recommend it over IE. )



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elina -

We use IE6.0 and have never used Firefox before. Yesterday afternoon we downloaded it from the
link given by Gato. Today we had more time and began to learn it, many thanks to the patient and
excellent teachers of Gato and Luobot, we understand it very fast.

At present we think our site is convenient for the following 3 kinds of people to surf:
1. visitors using IE6.0, if they want to open a link in the same window, other than in a new
window, now it’s the situation on our site, but before our site opened a link automatically in a
different new window.
2. visitors using IE6.0, if they want to open a link in a new window, SHIFT+click can do.
3. visitors using Firefox (or maybe IE7.0 judging from the above 2 posts, we have not learnt it
yet), CTRL+click can let people open a link in a new tabbed browsing in the same window.



Quote:

(Full disclosure: I use Firefox and I recommend it over IE. )

Going to love Firefox than IE for this “tabbed” characteristic, and maybe other advantages we
still have not found.










gato -



Quote:

Going to love Firefox than IE for this “tabbed” characteristic, and maybe other advantages we
still have not found.

Firefox doesn't give websites as much control over your computer as IE. Therefore, there's less of
chance that bad programs (e.g. spyware) will infect your computer. However, many mainland websites
are designed for IE 6.0 and may not work perfectly with Firefox or even IE 7.0. I use Firefox as
my primary browser and keep IE around as a backup.

A great thing about Firefox is the ability to add features with "add-ons." One of the best add-ons
for Firefox is "Scrapbook," which allows you to save web pages into organized folders (like you do
with bookmarks), with an ability to search the saved pages easily.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/427
ScrapBook

There are also many add-ons helpful to those learning languages such as these below for Chinese:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...inese&status=4












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