[Sigia-l] tabbed design user test

[Boniface Lau]

> From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org]On
> Behalf Of Jon Hanna
>  
> > May be users never expected to receive only "views" from tabs.
> 
> It's still how tabs are generally used within many graphical shells,

Since you mentioned graphical shells, may be we should look at what
the Microsoft "Official Guidelines for User Interface Developers and
Designers" said about tabs. According to:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnwue/html/ch08c.asp?frame=true

MS> A tab control is analogous to a divider in a file cabinet or
MS> notebook. You can use this control to define multiple logical
MS> pages or sections of information within the same window,...

As you can see for yourself, even the graphical shell guidelines do
NOT see tabs as suitable only for views.


Boniface