Mozilla Labs is challenging Web designers to help it find a more innovative way to represent browser tabs.
The Mozilla Labs Design Challenge: Summer 09 aims to find a better way to create, navigate and manage multiple Web sites within the same browser instance, according to a Web site about the contest.
Mozilla, which came up with the concept of tabs in its Firefox browser as a way to manage browsing multiple Web pages at the same time, said that tabs worked well when people were only using them to look at about 10 Web sites simultaneously. But now, when as many as 20 or more "parallel sessions" on the Web are common, tab technology isn't holding up.
More: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/164989/
The Mozilla Labs Design Challenge: Summer 09 aims to find a better way to create, navigate and manage multiple Web sites within the same browser instance, according to a Web site about the contest.
Mozilla, which came up with the concept of tabs in its Firefox browser as a way to manage browsing multiple Web pages at the same time, said that tabs worked well when people were only using them to look at about 10 Web sites simultaneously. But now, when as many as 20 or more "parallel sessions" on the Web are common, tab technology isn't holding up.
More: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/164989/
