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> but why's it such a big deal? Because people copy&paste URLs all the time, and without the http:// http:// they dont work where pasted. Not having http:// ht
by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> but why's it such a big deal?
Because people copy&paste URLs all the time, and without the http:// http:// they dont work where pasted. Not having http:// http:// when youre copy-pasting feels like a part of your URL is missing.
What I dont know is for whom they are hiding http:// http://? I'd guess there are 2 types of users, those who need the URL, then they need it complete, including the http:// http://, and those who dont need the URL to be visible at all (except maybe the domain name), like they dont need the current path in Explorer. But who exactly needs half an URL which is then only magically completed upon C&P-ing? And those who allegedly dont need http:// http://, why do they need the part after the TLD? From their POV, the arguments part is even more useless than http:// http://.
- joshuacc 15y agoLack of a superfluous http:// http:// is one of the things that I love about Chrome. And, for the record, it is included when you copy from the URL bar in every version I've seen on Windows.
- smacktoward 15y ago> for the record, it is included when you copy from the URL bar Yes, but this is part of what makes the "feature" so annoying for usability obsessives such as myself. It makes copy & paste work differently in the URL bar than they do everywhere else and in every other application. Normally copy only copies the text you select. Now when you paste you not only paste the text you selected, but some extra, previously unseen text as well. I know that once you hide the "http:// http:// you pretty much have to do copy & paste this way, to avoid people pasting incomplete URLs, but it still feels weird, at least to me...
- sbierwagen 15y agoUnless you got the URL from the history search, but didn't actually visit the page. In that case, it omits the http:// http://
- sp332 15y agoIn both FF and Chrome, copying includes the http:// http:// to the clipboard, so it's all there when you paste. So that's not an issue at all.