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How is this different to to Flipboard? This seems like their main competitor and I haven't seen anything yet that looks like an improvement over it. >> “Go bac
by bruceboughton 14y ago
How is this different to to Flipboard? This seems like their main competitor and I haven't seen anything yet that looks like an improvement over it.
>> “Go back 25 years to the flashing DOS prompt. That wasn’t accessible to someone like me. What Windows and Mac did was make it computing accessible to wanna-be nerds like me. But today, h t t p colon slash slash is not natural. It seems like something ripe for disruption.”
What a pointless soundbite. No one real has typed h t t p colon slash slash in about 10 years. Google and others before it solved that problem long ago.
- josteink 14y agoWhat a pointless soundbite. No one real has typed h t t p colon slash slash in about 10 years. After Google decided to covertly introduce their own proprietary SPDY-protocol and to undermine standard HTTP, W3C and IETF "in the name of user-friendlessness" and Chrome started assuming that any non-canonical server-name (ie in a URL like "test-server/testapp/page") is a Google-search, I find myself manually prepending URLs like that with http:// http:// all the time. Granted. I'm not a normal user. It's not a normal internet use-case. But browser-design as of late has made it increasingly needed to be specified. Someone, somewhere sat down and decided that this was a direction they wanted to go. The URL-bar has always been a referentially transparent addressing-function. IMO making it not so is a very bad move, and it's sole purpose was to secretly promote yet another invasive Google-product into becoming a web-standard without involving anyone else for input.
- bruceboughton 14y agoPerhaps, but what RockMelt is proposing is even less referentially transparent. My point is that the "problem" the quote proposes is not ripe for disruption as it has already been disrupted by search long ago.