Best practice with 'tabs' on custom theme?

Hello everyone,

What is the best practice with 'tabs' when developing a custom layout?

I currently have this code on my page.tpl.php

<?php if (!empty($tabs)): ?><div class="tabs"><?php print $tabs; ?></div><?php endif; ?>

(This was taken from the system's page.tpl.php file)

The problem with this is that this is shown to all users. Even anonymous users will see the 'view' tab.

There must be a better way. Thanks.