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Does the hiding of 'http://www http://www really bother you? I remember it bothering me, until the first time I copy / pasted the URL and it is there in the pa

by bmelton 16y ago

Does the hiding of 'http://www http://www really bother you? I remember it bothering me, until the first time I copy / pasted the URL and it is there in the pasted output.

saurik 16y ago
It doesn't bother me /much/, but I can feel it: as I copy/paste things from there a lot, as well as sometimes edit URLs, I'm in this interesting position of having to remember weird rules regarding what is theoretically in the box and what is actually in the box, which seems really silly.
- bmelton 16y ago
  I personally prefer it. I don't need to see the http://www http://www before each link, and if I'm just glancing up at the location bar to see where I am, on browsers that do show it, I have to mentally parse that out. On the other hand, when I copy and paste it, that means I intend to DO something with it, like send it to a friend over IM, or email it or something, during which case I want a full, clickable link. Which is exactly what they give me. On the off chance that I want to copy and paste the de-http'd URL, then I am in no better (or worse) shape than I would be with any other browser, in that I have to paste it and strip the 'http://www http://www as I ordinarily would.
- bambax 16y ago
  Same for me. But the upsetting part is the attitude of the Chrome Team, who says "if you don't like it just use another browser". Well, there are lots of things I like about Chrome; this seems too small a detail to stop using it. An option buried somewhere would make me completely happy. "Too many user choices are bad", certainly; but advanced options are a different thing from decisions every user would have to make. For now the only possibility is to download the source, set a boolean somewhere in the code, and compile your own version. How crazy is that?
  - lt 16y ago
    It's not about user decisions. It's about maintainability and testing. These are factors that are hugely affected by the combinatorial explosion of a ton of different settings. Developers often have to make a choice, and this is one of those times. You may not like it, but I don't blame them.

by bmelton 16y ago

Does the hiding of 'http://www http://www really bother you? I remember it bothering me, until the first time I copy / pasted the URL and it is there in the pasted output.

saurik 16y ago

It doesn't bother me /much/, but I can feel it: as I copy/paste things from there a lot, as well as sometimes edit URLs, I'm in this interesting position of having to remember weird rules regarding what is theoretically in the box and what is actually in the box, which seems really silly.

bmelton 16y ago
I personally prefer it. I don't need to see the http://www http://www before each link, and if I'm just glancing up at the location bar to see where I am, on browsers that do show it, I have to mentally parse that out. On the other hand, when I copy and paste it, that means I intend to DO something with it, like send it to a friend over IM, or email it or something, during which case I want a full, clickable link. Which is exactly what they give me. On the off chance that I want to copy and paste the de-http'd URL, then I am in no better (or worse) shape than I would be with any other browser, in that I have to paste it and strip the 'http://www http://www as I ordinarily would.
bambax 16y ago
Same for me. But the upsetting part is the attitude of the Chrome Team, who says "if you don't like it just use another browser". Well, there are lots of things I like about Chrome; this seems too small a detail to stop using it. An option buried somewhere would make me completely happy. "Too many user choices are bad", certainly; but advanced options are a different thing from decisions every user would have to make. For now the only possibility is to download the source, set a boolean somewhere in the code, and compile your own version. How crazy is that?
- lt 16y ago
  It's not about user decisions. It's about maintainability and testing. These are factors that are hugely affected by the combinatorial explosion of a ton of different settings. Developers often have to make a choice, and this is one of those times. You may not like it, but I don't blame them.