MacOS Monterey Will Have the Old Safari Tab Design (theverge.com) 20
An anonymous reader shares a report: Apple debuted a controversial new Safari tab design this summer at WWDC 2021, and since then, it has tweaked that look and even let you turn off many of the changes. With macOS Monterey, however, the company is going back to the way tabs looked before. On Apple's official page for the upcoming software update, if you scroll down to the section titled "Access Tab Groups anywhere," you can just barely see Safari's older (and arguably better) design in the example screenshots on both a Mac and on an iPad (via Daring Fireball). From earlier this month: Daring Fireball's criticism of the Safari tab design.
Spare me (Score:4, Interesting)
At least the automobile industry only changes their design once a year. Or they used to, anyway. Now, it's more like every 5 years. Why oh why do these moron UI designers need to change the UI look every month? Do these artists not have enough things to do? Maybe they could paint some murals around the office.
Re:Spare me (Score:5, Insightful)
It's the same reason programmers and web designers keep changing things. They need to justify their existence. Do we really need to change the shape of the corners of a tab? By golly yes! How else will one know the designer has earned their pay? Do we need to keep changing functionality of tabs? Absolutely. It's what keeps food on the table for the designer. Once they break something, they'll get paid to go back and fix it.
Re: (Score:2)
Why oh why do these moron UI designers need to change the UI look every month?
Speaking of morons, why not tell us the last time the UI changed? Oh that's right, even slower than the car industry.
Has Apple fixed the OS font sizing yet? (Score:1)
Re: (Score:2)
Not sure if it still works, but there is Tinkertool [softonic.com].
Difference between Apple and Mozilla (Score:5, Informative)
Apple reverts a counterintuitive tab design that people don't like.
Re: (Score:2)
I like the design. Tabs are directly atop the window they define. And when I want to change tab/web page, my eyes move from the page to the tab to the new page.
Re: (Score:2)
Like Mozilla, Apple never listens to complaints so it's surprising, and pleasing, that this time they did. Maybe Apple telemetry showed Safari usage drop by 90% after Safari 15 was released.
Also it's obvious Mozilla or Apple just copied this stupid person/group/team-who-came-up-with-this-should-be-fired counter-intuitive design from one another.
Who made Who, I wonder?
Really? (Score:1)
Is a design change in a browser no one uses really "stuff that matters" ?
Re: Really? (Score:2)
I am that one user of Safari, so yes, this is stuff that matters, you insensitive clod!
Re: (Score:2)
Given they already gave Big Sur Safari 15, I think it's likely they push an update for it as well.
Well that's a new strategy to drive upgrades... (Score:3)
Kind of a funny strategy - make something less and less functional in point releases, then revert in a larger upgrade.
But I guess it works! See also, Macbook Pros and Magsafe...
Re: (Score:3)
Technically speaking, the bad tab design was only ever in the public betas. The outcry was so bad that Apple undid the change.
So basically it was a beta test that went right. They tried a change, it failed to resonate, it got reverted.
Several other changes were like that - I believe iOS 15 tried to revamp the URL bar as well, but those changes disappeared in the final release because it wasn
Nope, out in wild (Score:1)
Technically speaking, the bad tab design was only ever in the public betas.
I am running Big Sur 11.6, production, and the release version of Safari - and I am staring at the very bad tab design every day.
The story is about the upcoming version of OS X...
At lest I was able to revert possibly the bad tab design of iOS 15 with a setting (though I actually may go back to try the new way they intended, there is at least some logic behind that change that makes sense).
Switched to Firefox because of redesign (Score:2)
who cares (Score:2)
Now I find out... (Score:2)
AFTER I got my tabcount down to 167 from 243 [slashdot.org]?
What about for iOS? (Score:2)
By default, iOS v15's Safari has them at the bottom! I know users can change it, but still...