Funny, but I browsed just as if I had tabs. I effectively had tabs. What I missed was "Open In New Tab.". Instead of concurrently opening, I have to wait for each page.
Do you know that you can tap and hold on a hyperlink to bring up a context menu which offers the option "Open in new page"? Where 'page' is functionally equivalent to 'tab'.
Tabbed browsing in desktop browsers also brings concurrency with it. On my Macbook, I can open lots of links "In New Tab" and read them as they load, so not have to wait for any one of them to load except the first one. With the iPad, I have to wait for every single page.
The interface throws you to a new page, but you can go back to your previous page/tab without waiting for the current one to load and it will finish on its own unless the browser runs out of memory.
The interface does a poor job of exposing this feature.
Answer: not concurrent but still snappy feeling. I have to wait longer than on the desktop because of no concurrency, but I mind less than I would otherwise because I can watch the pages zooming around.
Really? It's definitely not on the iPod Touch: other windows do not finish loading in the background, they wait until you swith to them to load. If you're right, I wonder why Apple made it different on the iPhone.
Mmh. My iPod Touch is second gen. I guess older iPhones don't load pages in the background and third gen iPod Touches probably do. It seems likely that Apple enables background loading only on devices with more memory (or maybe, on faster nes).
