Editing Tab (interface) (section)

==History==
The WordVision [[DOS]] word processor<ref name="manes19840403"/> for the [[IBM PC]] in 1982<ref name="seymour19940315"/> was perhaps the first commercially available product with a tabbed interface.<ref name="seymour19940315"/>

[[Image:HyperTIESAuthoring.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[HyperTIES]] browser and [[Gosling Emacs]] authoring tool with [[pie menu]]s on the [[NeWS]] window system]]
[[Don Hopkins]] developed and released several versions of tabbed window frames for the [[NeWS]] window system as free software, which the window manager applied to all NeWS applications, and enabled users to drag the tabs around to any edge of the window.<ref name="DonHopkinsPSIBER">{{cite web|url=http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/97|title=The Shape of PSIBER Space: PostScript Interactive Bug Eradication Routines|author-first=Don|author-last=Hopkins|author-link=Don Hopkins|date=October 1989|work=Don Hopkins' Web Site|access-date=2010-03-01}}</ref>

The [[NeWS]] version of UniPress's [[Gosmacs|Gosling Emacs]] text editor was another early product with multiple tabbed windows in 1988.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/emacs/to.jag.txt|title=Email from Don Hopkins to James Gosling, David S H Rosenthal, Owen Densmore, Jerry Farrell about Text selection in NeMACS.|author-first=Don|author-last=Hopkins|author-link=Don Hopkins|date=1988-08-17|work=Don Hopkins' Web Site}}</ref> It was used to develop an authoring tool for [[Ben Shneiderman]]'s [[hypermedia]] browser [[HyperTIES]] (the NeWS workstation version of The Interactive Encyclopedia System), in 1988 at the [[University of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Lab]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/101|title=HyperTIES Hypermedia Browser and Emacs Authoring Tool for NeWS|author-first=Don|author-last=Hopkins|author-link=Don Hopkins|date=2005-09-29|work=Don Hopkins' Web Site|access-date=2010-03-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhmU2B79EDU|title= HCIL Demo - HyperTIES Authoring |author-first=Don|author-last=Hopkins|website= [[YouTube]] |author-link=Don Hopkins}}</ref> HyperTIES also supported [[pie menus]] for managing windows and browsing hypermedia documents with [[PostScript]] [[applet]]s.

While [[Boeing Calc]] already utilized tabbed sheets (as so-called ''word pads'') since at least 1987,<!-- Boeing Calc 3.0 August 1987, but possibly earlier, to be researched --><ref name="Malloy_1987"/><ref name="Corwyn"/> [[Borland]]'s [[Quattro Pro]] popularized tabs for spreadsheets in 1992. [[Microsoft Word]] in 1993 used them to simplify submenus.{{r|seymour19940315}} In 1994, [[BookLink|BookLink Technologies]] featured tabbed windows in its [[InternetWorks]] browser. That same year, the text editor [[UltraEdit]] also appeared with a modern multi-row tabbed interface.  The tabbed interface approach was then followed by the [[Internet Explorer shell]] [[NetCaptor]] in 1997. These were followed by several others like [[IBrowse]] in 1999, and [[Opera (web browser)|Opera]] in 2000 (with the release of version 4 - although an MDI interface was supported before then), MultiViews October 2000, which changed its name into MultiZilla on April 1st, 2001 (an [[Add-on (Mozilla)|extension]] for the [[Mozilla Application Suite]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://multizilla.mozdev.org/history.html|title=Mozdev.org - multizilla: history|last=van Rantwijk|first=HJ|publisher=[[Mozilla]]|access-date=2010-03-01|archive-date=2008-12-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207023540/http://multizilla.mozdev.org/history.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>), [[Galeon]] in early 2001, [[Mozilla Foundation|Mozilla]] 0.9.5 in October 2001, Phoenix 0.1 (now [[Mozilla Firefox]]) in October 2002, [[Konqueror]] 3.1 in January 2003, and [[Safari (web browser)|Safari]] in 2003. With the release of [[Internet Explorer 7]] in 2006, all major web browsers featured a tabbed interface.

Users quickly adopted the use of tabs in web browsing and web search. A study of tabbed browsing behavior in June 2009 found that users switched tabs in 57% of tab sessions, and 36% of users used new tabs to open [[Search engine (computing)|search engine]] results at least once during that period.<ref>{{cite conference | author = Jeff Huang, Ryen W. White | year = 2010 | title = Parallel Browsing Behavior on the Web | book-title = Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (HT '10) | url =http://jeffhuang.com/ParallelBrowsing_Final.pdf }}</ref>

Numerous additional browser tab capabilities have emerged since then. One example is visual tabbed browsing in [[OmniWeb]] version 5, which displays preview images of pages in a drawer to the left or right of the main browser window. Another feature is the ability to re-order tabs and to [[bookmark (web)|bookmark]] all of the webpages opened in tab panes in a given window in a group or bookmark folder (as well as the ability to reopen all of them at the same time). [[Internet Explorer|Microsoft Internet Explorer]] marks tab families with different colours.