Tab-adabbadoo
Wednesday, 7. May 2008, 07:51:54
The latest snapshot release of Opera 9.50 for Mac has new tabs in the default Mac Native skin and I'm happy and overwhelmed -- as you can tell from this post -- because Opera included tabs that I made.
What I did was to take the original tabs of Opera, rotate the gradient and adjust it so that it runs smoothly into the toolbar background color used e.g. in the address bar. Then I added a border to the selected tab and the bottom of the Page Bar and adjusted the selected tab so that it "breaks" the bottom border of the Page Bar -- thus it visually connects the selected tab to the UI of the current page. So as you can tell I did not invent something radically new nor did I go far away from the Mac Native tabs that Opera used before and that I liked, I rather adjusted them.
Short before the release Opera contacted me and said they were considering to include the tabs but they needed versions for bottom and left/right placement of the Page Bar. So I made rotated versions of the tabs for bottom and totally new versions for the left/right placement. Now I hope you Mac fellows out there like the tabs so that Opera will not throw them out again too soon. Below you can see a preview of how they look like -- top / bottom / side.
What I did was to take the original tabs of Opera, rotate the gradient and adjust it so that it runs smoothly into the toolbar background color used e.g. in the address bar. Then I added a border to the selected tab and the bottom of the Page Bar and adjusted the selected tab so that it "breaks" the bottom border of the Page Bar -- thus it visually connects the selected tab to the UI of the current page. So as you can tell I did not invent something radically new nor did I go far away from the Mac Native tabs that Opera used before and that I liked, I rather adjusted them.
Short before the release Opera contacted me and said they were considering to include the tabs but they needed versions for bottom and left/right placement of the Page Bar. So I made rotated versions of the tabs for bottom and totally new versions for the left/right placement. Now I hope you Mac fellows out there like the tabs so that Opera will not throw them out again too soon. Below you can see a preview of how they look like -- top / bottom / side.
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"Awesome tab graphics for 9.5: Ralf Demuth"
By eiriks, # 7. May 2008, 08:54:06
Nice tabs
By minch, # 7. May 2008, 10:05:23
By AVL, # 7. May 2008, 20:34:18
Anyway... Great improvement over the tabs that were in Kestrel already. They're different than what other programs offer, but work quite well. I didn't even bother to look and see what they look like on the side. Quite nice, I'd say. Now I don't have to do anything with the side tabs in Entr'Acte!
Well, great job, Ralf. Here's to more Opera UI improvements...
By Khadgar, # 8. May 2008, 19:52:54
And yes, the close button in the screenshot is yours. The skin isn't the pure Mac Native, it's my personal favourite combination of your native icon set and the new tabs
By lachralle, # 8. May 2008, 20:37:59
By Khadgar, # 8. May 2008, 22:56:06
By intelimac20inch, # 11. May 2008, 18:38:32
By lachralle, # 11. May 2008, 20:43:17
By intelimac20inch, # 12. May 2008, 20:29:40