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#The mission statement of "Visualize Pages" is: "''to provide a visual way to help you view your open pages, and to help you organize your '''open''' pages between tabs and '''windows'''''".<br> "Visualize Pages" will show you a matrix of '''''all'' pages that are open''': i.e. all open tabbed pages in the current window, together with all other Firefox windows that you have open and all pages that are open within each of these other windows. '''No windows will ever be hidden'''. This could also be thought of as Mac OS X "Exposé" in its application-specific mode, except that it will also show tabbed pages, allow you to re-organize pages between tabs and windows, and remember a virtual spatial organization of your groups/windows.<br><br> | #The mission statement of "Visualize Pages" is: "''to provide a visual way to help you view your open pages, and to help you organize your '''open''' pages between tabs and '''windows'''''".<br> "Visualize Pages" will show you a matrix of '''''all'' pages that are open''': i.e. all open tabbed pages in the current window, together with all other Firefox windows that you have open and all pages that are open within each of these other windows. '''No windows will ever be hidden'''. This could also be thought of as Mac OS X "Exposé" in its application-specific mode, except that it will also show tabbed pages, allow you to re-organize pages between tabs and windows, and remember a virtual spatial organization of your groups/windows.<br><br> | ||
#The user will '''not be forced to use the "Visualize Pages" view''' to see the logical partitioning - it will be evident on both the tab strip and by the fact that what is currently known as "tab sets" will simply be standard and more flexible '''windows'''. Since windows are a the standard way to display programs, all standard OS interactions will be able to be performed on each window. The hierarchy will also be able to be edited from directly in the tab strip, without the user requiring to enter the "Visualize Pages" view at all.<br><br> | #The user will '''not be forced to use the "Visualize Pages" view''' to see the logical partitioning - it will be evident on both the tab strip and by the fact that what is currently known as "tab sets" will simply be standard and more flexible '''windows'''. Since windows are a the standard way to display programs, all standard OS interactions will be able to be performed on each window. The hierarchy will also be able to be edited from directly in the tab strip, without the user requiring to enter the "Visualize Pages" view at all.<br><br> | ||
#'''No ''forced'' extra layers of hierarchy''' will be added between the user and their content. Content will be able to be reached with the exact same levels of hierarchy as present in FF3. | #'''No ''forced'' extra layers of hierarchy''' will be added between the user and their content. Content will be able to be reached with the exact same levels of hierarchy as present in FF3.<br><br> | ||
#Any large '''grey rectangles''' (currently called "tab sets") that are shown in the "Visualize Pages" view will '''correspond 1:1 with ''open windows'''''. Using '''windows '''will be the main method that is encouraged to partition tabbed pages.<br> <br> | #Any large '''grey rectangles''' (currently called "tab sets") that are shown in the "Visualize Pages" view will '''correspond 1:1 with ''open windows'''''. Using '''windows '''will be the main method that is encouraged to partition tabbed pages.<br> <br> | ||
#Since each "TabCandy tab set" is now just a window, the new '''Windows 7 Taskbar API''' will be used to indicate the contents of each window, and show the label given to each window (the label entered in the "Visualize Pages" view).<br> <br> | #Since each "TabCandy tab set" is now just a window, the new '''Windows 7 Taskbar API''' will be used to indicate the contents of each window, and show the label given to each window (the label entered in the "Visualize Pages" view).<br> <br> | ||