Re: [w3ctag/design-reviews] Tabbed web apps (Issue #841)

Hi there @loubrett,

We're discussing in today's TAG virtual f2f session – we're concerned about "desktop only".  Most available statistics indicate that the majority of web usage is on mobile devices - e.g. see [this run-down of recent access stats for gov.uk web sites](https://hachyderm.io/@TheRealNooshu/109947378812496228) - indicating 58.26% mobile, 39.82% desktop. Also since the web is [multi-browser, multi-OS and multi-device](https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/#multi), we'd like to encourage you to consider mobile and other platforms. We're also concerned about implementation issues across different OSs, @hober will follow up with more details.

We'd like to see more use cases & more discussion of user needs. Even in our short vF2F discussion several different use cases were brought up (Google Maps, microblogging client, Wikipedia etc). We would hate to see a web feature designed for just one thing when it could help meet a lot of different needs. See our relevant [Design Principles discussion](https://github.com/w3ctag/design-principles/issues/450). Also, have you considered the user experience when URLs to this web app are clicked across the OS? (e.g. in a Google Maps PWA, what happens when I click on the pin a friend sent me on Messenger?)

Are you thinking that tabs would only be allowed from the same origin that is the origin of the webapp itself? We're concerned about the user experience of a web app that includes links to other external sites which might then be opened as tabs in the tabbed webapp vs being opened in the user's default browser / browser experience. Equally, saying "you can only open links from the same origin" would be a very different feature, from a user's point of view. What was your intention on this? 

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