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I think you're missing a trick. Genuinely chrome-less could be pretty useful, and more attractive. The small black navigation bar at the top of the screen coul

I think you're missing a trick. Genuinely chrome-less could be pretty useful, and more attractive. The small black navigation bar at the top of the screen could be done away with, if you change your URL structure to be more easily understood & manipulated. From shoulder surfing various people of various levels of tech experience, i've noticed they are quite happy to edit a logically structured url in the address bar to navigate where they want to go quickly. For example, if the site doesn't provide an easy "up one level" ability.

imissmyjuno 14y ago
Argument against: some browsers don't show the URL, e.g. Firefox on Android, which shows the page title in the URL bar when the focus is away from the field.
- 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
  Safari for iOS is probably a less obscure example - as you scroll down the page, the address bar will scroll off screen. These interactions are expected by their users, and they know how to navigate around them. I wouldn't be hasty and say i don't think it'd be a material concern, on the contrary, it could make for some interesting A/B testing!
izak30 14y ago
Pretty sure my mom has never tried to guess a URL. URLs should be great, you should treat them as a first-class user interface, but not the only one.
supo 14y ago
Wow that is a pretty extreme idea. With dofsome we wanted to achieve nice interface + smooth flow between photos (eg when you go photo -> grid, the photo you came from is highlighted etc). This would probably be disrupted if you had to manually change the url and not just 'click on things'. But as others are saying, we definitely have stuff to improve about urls (e.g. the album title in url etc).
fudged71 14y ago
If you use fullscreen, having to get to the URL bar can be challenging. I'd prefer a very simple navigation than needing to use the URL.
- supo 14y ago
  Is the current navigation simple enough? Or maybe bigger click targets for the top bar?

imissmyjuno 14y ago

Argument against: some browsers don't show the URL, e.g. Firefox on Android, which shows the page title in the URL bar when the focus is away from the field.

3amOpsGuy 14y ago
Safari for iOS is probably a less obscure example - as you scroll down the page, the address bar will scroll off screen. These interactions are expected by their users, and they know how to navigate around them. I wouldn't be hasty and say i don't think it'd be a material concern, on the contrary, it could make for some interesting A/B testing!

izak30 14y ago

Pretty sure my mom has never tried to guess a URL. URLs should be great, you should treat them as a first-class user interface, but not the only one.

supo 14y ago

Wow that is a pretty extreme idea. With dofsome we wanted to achieve nice interface + smooth flow between photos (eg when you go photo -> grid, the photo you came from is highlighted etc). This would probably be disrupted if you had to manually change the url and not just 'click on things'. But as others are saying, we definitely have stuff to improve about urls (e.g. the album title in url etc).

fudged71 14y ago

If you use fullscreen, having to get to the URL bar can be challenging. I'd prefer a very simple navigation than needing to use the URL.

supo 14y ago
Is the current navigation simple enough? Or maybe bigger click targets for the top bar?