Your friend may have been talking about the NSTabView which contains the WebView object in Safari's browser.nib file.
Yes, there is an NSTabView. Safari uses it to switch between Browser and Bookmarks mode. The tabs are turned off; it's controlled by the Bookmarks button instead. You can turn the tabs back on, but you won't be able to use them for tabbed browsing; they'll still only work for switching between Browser and Bookmarks mode.
It is theoretically possible that Apple might extend this to implement tabbed browsing. But there isn't any other UI for it at all in Safari right now, so there's no way to tell if they'll use this for it, or implement some other means of switching between pages.
As long as they don't use a
ing Drawer for it, I'll be happy. Coming up with new UI ideas is good, as long as they're better than what came before.
Yes, there is an NSTabView. Safari uses it to switch between Browser and Bookmarks mode. The tabs are turned off; it's controlled by the Bookmarks button instead. You can turn the tabs back on, but you won't be able to use them for tabbed browsing; they'll still only work for switching between Browser and Bookmarks mode.
It is theoretically possible that Apple might extend this to implement tabbed browsing. But there isn't any other UI for it at all in Safari right now, so there's no way to tell if they'll use this for it, or implement some other means of switching between pages.
As long as they don't use a
ing Drawer for it, I'll be happy. Coming up with new UI ideas is good, as long as they're better than what came before.