Oh, that's sure better. I missed the "persistently" in the article, my mind automatically assumed that it was auto-hiding (must be the late hours).
Anyway, I still don't agree that it's always better than a sliding menu. Sometime it is (when you use it exactly as you would use tabs), sometime it isn't (when you use it to show options that nobody really cares about) and sometimes both can easily work together (when you have tabs and options). It's just bad advice to say "don't even think about it, just kill the hamburger button and switch to tabs already".
There is a reason is we still have menu on the desktops (even if the trend lately seems to kill them), which is because those "mostly useless" options aren't that useless 100% of the time, and it's always good to have them somewhere that doesn't occupy space.
Anyway, I still don't agree that it's always better than a sliding menu. Sometime it is (when you use it exactly as you would use tabs), sometime it isn't (when you use it to show options that nobody really cares about) and sometimes both can easily work together (when you have tabs and options). It's just bad advice to say "don't even think about it, just kill the hamburger button and switch to tabs already".
There is a reason is we still have menu on the desktops (even if the trend lately seems to kill them), which is because those "mostly useless" options aren't that useless 100% of the time, and it's always good to have them somewhere that doesn't occupy space.