Hello Ryan,
Thank you for contacting us - indeed, the native tabstrips behave in the way you describe. Each tab maintains its own stack of views.
I am afraid that such behavior can't be accomplished with the current widget, as it would require a fundamentally different approach - each tab should have its own pane with a separate set of views associated. This would also affect the browser back button and history manipulation, to name a few things.
Given that, introducing such behavior to the current tabstrip widget would be a huge breaking change (the markup should be updated) - I think that at some point we may consider implementing this as an extension of the splitview (which maintains multiple panes), or as an entirely new widget.
Regards,
Petyo
the Telerik team
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