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I’ve wondered why we continue to display URLs as painfully-long single lines of text. Tradition? Why is this helpful anymore? (e.g. On an iPhone it’s not eas

I’ve wondered why we continue to display URLs as painfully-long single lines of text. Tradition? Why is this helpful anymore? (e.g. On an iPhone it’s not easy to edit the end of a URL.) If it’s so damn hard to display full URLs on one line, let’s display them on several lines (at least after tapping on them), broken on dots to wrap. Spaces aren’t valid in URLs anyway.

jpttsn 6y ago
Broken on ...dots? Not slashes? Mysite. Com/Index. Html
pkamb 6y ago
I've thought about this as well. Tapping the URL bar on an iPhone should open a multi-line wrapping text block that doesn't require painful horizontal scrolling.