Talk:Tab (GUI)

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I personally implemented a tabbed panel as part of the Policy Workbench application of the Alvey DHSS Large Demonstrator System in 1986. This ran on the Xerox 1108 'Dandelion' workstation, which was an early GUI machine. As far as I know my implementation was the first tabbed panel on a bitmapped GUI display; it had all the features Adobe claimed and was thus clear prior art on all grounds to the Adobe patent. At the time of the dispute with Macromedia I wrote to both sides outlining the prior art, but received no reply from either.

I'd agree that the 'invention' was trivial. Simon Brooke 07:46, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Would anyone else agree that Firefox popularized tabs in browsers? --Fez2005 04:21, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Origin

Tabs were first used in OS/2 and Windows in dialog boxes. Their use as document switching controls came much later. The way the article is written gives the reverse impression. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.125.110.223 (talk) 16:23, 19 December 2007 (UTC)