The third item of the Features page on the Camino website, ‘Tabbed Browsing Improvements’, describes what I did and what it adds to Camino.

“Camino 1.6 includes a scrolling tab bar. When more tabs are open than can be displayed in the tab bar, arrows appear at the right and left edges to allow scrolling the bar. As part of this change, the tab overflow menu has been replaced by a menu displaying all open tabs in the current window. “

For those who don’t use Mac OS X, or don’t want to use Camino to find out more, this screenshot shows what the new tab bar looks like:

A couple of details not explained on the Features page: the tab overflow menu at the right has menu dividers to split the menu into 3 sections: tabs to the left of the currently visible tabs, currently visible tabs, and tabs to the right of currently visible tabs; if you select a tab from the tab overflow menu outside what is currently visible in the tab bar, the selected tab becomes the left-most or right-most tab depending on whether you chose a tab from the left or right side of the overflow menu bar.

I think those details are typical of the polish in a Camino point release and I’m pleased with the result of my work. A lot of people helped out during the project and without them I wouldn’t have succeeded, so thanks guys.

I’m keen to see Jeff Dlouhy’s Tabspose work from Google Summer of Code 2007 become part of the upcoming Camino 2.0 release and look forward to hearing the conclusions of the Camino Meet 2008 to learn more about the direction of development for Camino 2.0; Stuart already has some interesting thoughts.