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Alternatively, "Every URL bar looks like a search bar to users."
by justusthane 5y ago
Alternatively, "Every URL bar looks like a search bar to users."
- zo1 5y agoOr "Every URL bar is made to look like a search bar". It's been 30+ years and it doesn't seem like we've been able to rethink or enhance the URL bar in any meaningful sense other than throwing search into it.
- thrower123 5y agoEvery change to URL bars lately seems to make them less useful. Let's hide the protocol, users don't need to know whether they are connected through http, https or ftp, right? Let's make the URL bar jump about fifty pixels when you select it, so that your mouse cursor is no longer in the right place when you go to select a URL fragment.
- dylan604 5y agomy favorite least favorite is hiding everything but the domain. clearly, nothing useful can come from displaying anything after the TLD.
- denton-scratch 5y agoThe path and the query parameters are obviously useful and informative. The problem is that those URL components have more-and-more been turned into opaque hashes, that provide zero information. And it's annoying that web-devs don't respect the principle that URLs shouldn't ever change.
- Miraste 5y agoAh, but users know they're not connected through ftp because we deleted it from the browser!
- JohnWhigham 5y agoURL bars came first though.
- justusthane 5y agoDoesn't matter. A ton of people don't understand what URLs are or what an address bar is. Everything is treated like a search bar.