Potential Titles: The Implementation and Evolution of Tab-Based Navigation Upping Website Stylistic Standards

In the older days of web design, stylistic standards had not yet been codified to the extent that websites that could claim to be "competitive" could reliably feature the same innovations for the benefit of the user's experience. It was common for websites to feature outdated code and aesthetic design choices even while certain sites might have landed upon audience-pleasing effects that would become mainstream trends decades down the line. This was largely because of how much more difficult it originally was to implement subtly vibrant effects than it is today. Effects that might have once required Flash files can now be executed very easily with code that exists between HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

For example, websites with navigation sections that are arranged so that the user has to roll over and click on tabs would often be content with having the tabs instantly light up while the user's mouse cursor is hovering over them. Likewise, the highlighting effect would instantly get turned off without any transitional effect once the user moves the cursor away. The abrupt presentation of instantaneous rollover effects would have been widely accepted for professional websites in the past because these effects were rigidly abrupt by default. While this technically remains true today, it is now much easier to implement transitional effects with CSS and JavaScript, which leads to a broad expectation that professional websites representing large companies do whatever they can to liven up their navigation.

A designer named Emil Kowalski showcases a method of sprucing up tab-based navigation by having a box-like effect that appears behind one highlighted tab smoothly shift its position to an adjoining tab when the user rolls their mouse cursor directly between the two tabs. On top of leaving a positive impression, this method goes out of its way to make sure that, when the cursor stops hovering over one tab but then hovers over another one, the box does not start materializing from the position of the first tab. The text within a tab also smoothly turns black when the user rolls over it to help emphasize the transition. For more information click here https://i.redd.it/cju193g9jeq71.gif.