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Domain names are just fundamentally displayed wrong - the left to right reading order doesn't prioritise the right information. "com.google" is what you need t
by XorNot 4y ago
Domain names are just fundamentally displayed wrong - the left to right reading order doesn't prioritise the right information.
"com.google" is what you need to see since it tells you who's really in charge of the content.
Particularly on mobile where I'm writing this I currently can see at most "news.ycombinator.co..." in the address bar. Could be a lot after that, how would I know at a glance?
Google and Mozilla could make substantial progress on this today by just showing an extra bit with the start of a domain name in right-to-left reading order.
- navjack27 4y agoEdge seems to be doing things right in that department. On my phone I see the whole URL and the lock indicating https.
- thiht 4y agoSame on Safari. If I add more subdomains, it still displays the label and the extension in priority, the additional subdomains are faded and hidden on the left. This seems sane to me.
- reddalo 4y agoSome time ago, I read an interview with Tim Berners-Lee (I can't find the interview anymore, though) in which he said that if he could go back in time, he would reverse the URLs, starting from the top-level domain. Just like newsgroup hierarchies.
- dan-robertson 4y agoI think this is how they worked in the olden days. But maybe I’m confusing domain names with some uucp thing. I think the names were reversed for email (maybe a false story though) so an email address would go from least significant part to most significant part, but this was pretty broken for urls as you had middle-significance to most then middle to least.