Side by Side Tabs (Split View)
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RihardsVeters I know that this seems pretty identical to split view, but I wouldn't call it that way - this is separate feature. This is sticked to sidebar and can be opened at any time, next to any other tab or even split view. So that's separate "browser" tab, just in sidebar.
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RihardsVeters Similary to programmable button scripts which shows results in orion sidebar
this app is almost perfect, one more thing i would like to have is split screen. currently Orion supports split screen with another application but however doesnβt support splitscreening two orion tabs.
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Does any other browser do this? How does the user activate the feature? What does it look like?
Is this supposed to be for mac, or for ipad? iphones don't have split screen
What is the point of this feature.
The OS does this natively. Implementing inside a browser doesn't add anything infact, now you have a glitchy fullscreen.
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The idea is that one tab can have multiple splits, so you could switch between groups of pages open in splits in a single click. OS would require you to change tabs separately in each open window. Its like splits in vim and splits in any other editor
dderg Maybe its limited to my case, but I have never come across this requirement for my workflow.
To replecate that above senario, I would use Stage Manager. Does the same thing again , natively.
But yeah, I see your point.
Not sure how to articulate the importance of the difference, but I was surprised to discover just how much I used and liked using the split view approach in Arc Browser, which is where I first saw it. It's the one thing that reliably makes me happy to switch back to Arc. (Its also prettier but that is very low on my priority list right now )
Part of it is the ability to mix and match layouts within the browser environment. If I want to have multiple windows in Stage Manager to accomplish the same layout, it takes more effort to set up and adds overhead when switching (I need to switch multiple window focus's when changing apps), and it just generally doesn't work as well.
I hope Orion adds a feature like split view in Arc, as that is one of Arc's main features. I use Split view with the browser a lot, but drag and dropping and clicking to make a split view is too much of burden to do.
For the moment, we don't plan to implement this feature. We think the Focus mode (β§βF) allows for even more flexibility, look at this example:
What do you guys think?