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Makes more sense but we’d have too many urls starting with com; it would be a bit of a cognitive waste. When the rotaty phone was around more important areas we
by lacrimacida 6y ago
Makes more sense but we’d have too many urls starting with com; it would be a bit of a cognitive waste. When the rotaty phone was around more important areas were startig with low digits to save on dialing time. Perhaps a similar type of consideration was used for the current form of urls
- kovek 6y agoWhy is it an issue to have too many urls starting with com? We type those at the end anyway
- DarthGhandi 6y agoMuch prefer the first letter I type into a browser bar be one in 26 letters, not 3 at best for most of the internet. Would make random tld's in oppressive countries somehow even more desirable than they already are. It's a silly idea in the age of url suggestions. I can reach most things I want on the internet with 2 key presses. Everything common in one. N: Hacker News C: Cloud Console M: Gmail R: Reddit X: Well you get the idea
- corytheboyd 6y agoIn this hypothetical where the host name starts with the TLD, I think you could assume browsers would change the way this works, because it is obviously broken lol
- indentit 6y agoI thought we just press Ctrl+Enter so we don't have to type `.com`. It would feel weird to have that fill in a prefix instead of a suffix, as one's text caret is typically at the end of what you typed so its cognitively similar to performing an insert than an append currently...