On: Common Usability Mistakes

[ugh]

Safari doesn’t display favicons on tabs. (Edit: It’s true! It really doesn’t!)

[aiiie → ugh]

It also strips out common prefixes among tab titles that would cause the tab title to become abbreviated. It's pretty clever, I think.

[blasdel → aiiie]

Safari also uses some pretty clever tricks when abbreviating to preserve as much information as possible -- it uses interior ellipses sometimes instead of trailing ones, and I think it has a blacklist of low-content words to strip out first.