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Why not make your URLs responsive?

74 points by jamesjyu 14y ago

yefim323 14y ago
This ruins the history and is not supported on most Android browsers.
- novum 14y ago
  > Seriously? Hahahaha, no. This is an absolutely terrible idea, please don't ever do this! Last paragraph. :)
jaytaylor 14y ago
This is pretty hilarious :)
jQueryIsAwesome 14y ago
I want responsive favicons... thing is; I'm not joking; it would be very useful if every site had a 128px * 128px and 640px * 640px versions of their favicons (logos?).
- deleted 14y ago
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- baddox 14y ago
  You can do that with .ico favicons, but I have no idea what the browser support is like.
- ph0rque 14y ago
  I think what you want is explained here: http://www.jonathantneal.com/blog/understand-the-favicon/ http://www.jonathantneal.com/blog/understand-the-favicon/
- joshguthrie 14y ago
  IIRC, the HTML5 Boilerplate came bundled with icons of various sizes for Apple devices.
cstrat 14y ago
hahaha I like it. It isn't that far fetched though, using canonical meta tags you can preserve the main your links on search engines (so you don't SEO ruin yourself). Most sites have multiple ways to access the same articles/content... no reason not to use a simplified version of this for mobile access. What I mean is, when a mobile is detected use simplified/shortened URLs. Helps if you are copying or manually entering URLs in texts etc...
JakeSc 14y ago
Interesting demo, even just for its novelty. I would never have thought to do this. Thanks for sharing.
jasonkostempski 14y ago
I would like to see responsive titles based on tab size.
- jQueryIsAwesome 14y ago
  Well, you can rotate the words if it's really that long: http://fiddle.jshell.net/fuDSb/10/show/light/ http://fiddle.jshell.net/fuDSb/10/show/light/
jfoster 14y ago
Doesn't seem like such a bad idea to do this for page titles. When I have lots of tabs open, each of my tabs is less wide than it would be if it were the only tab open. Nearly every tab has a truncated title in it.
- ibrahima 14y ago
  Especially when a lot of sites include their name at the beginning of the title, I just end up with a lot of tabs titled things like Comm.. and Hack.. etc. When I use Firefox I use Tree Style Tabs so it's not a problem but with Chrome there is no good way to get that functionality. The closest approximations I've seen pop up a separate window for the tab tree but that's a terrible kludge and it doesn't play too well with my tiling window manager if I have anything besides the browser on the workspace.
neeee 14y ago
Why not just use short URLs all the time?
- nvr219 14y ago
  Because it's nice to have a URL that is descriptive so I can get an idea of what I'm clicking on before I click on it. Maybe I've just been goatsed too many times...
  - dergachev 14y ago
    In that case, you might enjoy this bookmarklet I made a few weeks ago: http://dergachev.github.com/descriptive-url-bookmarklet/ http://dergachev.github.com/descriptive-url-bookmarklet/ It automatically extracts the title of the current page and appends it to the URL, like so: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-pyuaThp-c#doodling-in-math-class-connecting-dots-youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-pyuaThp-c#doodling-in-math-... http://ihackernews.com/comments/5043231#hacker-news-mobile-devopssysadmin-cheatsheet http://ihackernews.com/comments/5043231#hacker-news-mobile-d... https://github.com/dergachev/chrome-xpath-link/issues/2#create-a-bookmarklet https://github.com/dergachev/chrome-xpath-link/issues/2#crea... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5043231#devopssysadmin-cheatsheet http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5043231#devopssysadmin-c... http://drupal.org/node/1427148#meta-how-should-joke-modules-be-handled http://drupal.org/node/1427148#meta-how-should-joke-modules-... https://gist.github.com/4331769#rule-of-thirds-bookmarklet https://gist.github.com/4331769#rule-of-thirds-bookmarklet http://bl.ocks.org/4360892#u.s.-airports http://bl.ocks.org/4360892#u.s.-airports http://www.redmine.org/issues/12778#defect-12778-upgrade-to-rails-3.2.11-redmine http://www.redmine.org/issues/12778#defect-12778-upgrade-to-... https://twitter.com/dergachev/status/290914183220981760#twitter-dergachev-remembering-aaron-swarz-the-.. https://twitter.com/dergachev/status/290914183220981760#twit.... https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AonYZs4MzlZbdERaRzgxaUcwYXVRZFpaR3ZrekREb2c&hl=en&authkey=CIretNoB#corruption-index https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AonYZs4MzlZbdER... https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-4305#solr-4305-xss-vulnerability-in-solr-/admin/analysis.jsp-asf-jira https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-4305#solr-4305-xs... http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/inl/2434325556.html#best-of-craigslist-ugly-mean-cat-free http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/inl/2434325556.html#bes... http://www.flickr.com/photos/54771108@N07/6959604522/#circus-clown http://www.flickr.com/photos/54771108@N07/6959604522/#circus...
neumann_alfred 14y ago
I pretty much think you should implement all those examples, always, regardless of screen size..
meej 14y ago
I was all "NOOOOOOOOOO!" until I got to the "Seriously?" part, hahaha.
- snikch 14y ago
  Ditto.
businessleads 14y ago
What's also funny is that the majority of commenters didn't read till the end...
- PommeDeTerre 14y ago
  Even after reading to the end, I wasn't totally convinced that he wasn't joking about joking. With hash fragments, URL shortening, JavaScript and numerous other obviously-bad ideas being widely considered "acceptable", it's hard to tell when web developers are and aren't serious.
markahern 14y ago
As much as I enjoyed the blog post, I enjoyed reading through the comments to see folks who offer their opinion without having even read to the bottom of what is a short post even more.
kvprashant 14y ago
That' would use up a lot of words in the vocabulary :D
the1 14y ago
responsive content: latex paper gets tl;tr-ed to a tweet on iphone retina display.
jeromeparadis 14y ago
Very original! Although it's a joke, it boggles the mind he actually thought of it and implemented it. Kudos!

74 points by jamesjyu 14y ago

yefim323 14y ago

This ruins the history and is not supported on most Android browsers.

novum 14y ago
> Seriously? Hahahaha, no. This is an absolutely terrible idea, please don't ever do this! Last paragraph. :)

jaytaylor 14y ago

This is pretty hilarious :)

jQueryIsAwesome 14y ago

I want responsive favicons... thing is; I'm not joking; it would be very useful if every site had a 128px * 128px and 640px * 640px versions of their favicons (logos?).

deleted 14y ago
[deleted]
baddox 14y ago
You can do that with .ico favicons, but I have no idea what the browser support is like.
ph0rque 14y ago
I think what you want is explained here: http://www.jonathantneal.com/blog/understand-the-favicon/ http://www.jonathantneal.com/blog/understand-the-favicon/
joshguthrie 14y ago
IIRC, the HTML5 Boilerplate came bundled with icons of various sizes for Apple devices.

cstrat 14y ago

hahaha I like it. It isn't that far fetched though, using canonical meta tags you can preserve the main your links on search engines (so you don't SEO ruin yourself). Most sites have multiple ways to access the same articles/content... no reason not to use a simplified version of this for mobile access. What I mean is, when a mobile is detected use simplified/shortened URLs. Helps if you are copying or manually entering URLs in texts etc...

JakeSc 14y ago

Interesting demo, even just for its novelty. I would never have thought to do this. Thanks for sharing.

jasonkostempski 14y ago

I would like to see responsive titles based on tab size.

jQueryIsAwesome 14y ago
Well, you can rotate the words if it's really that long: http://fiddle.jshell.net/fuDSb/10/show/light/ http://fiddle.jshell.net/fuDSb/10/show/light/

jfoster 14y ago

Doesn't seem like such a bad idea to do this for page titles. When I have lots of tabs open, each of my tabs is less wide than it would be if it were the only tab open. Nearly every tab has a truncated title in it.

ibrahima 14y ago
Especially when a lot of sites include their name at the beginning of the title, I just end up with a lot of tabs titled things like Comm.. and Hack.. etc. When I use Firefox I use Tree Style Tabs so it's not a problem but with Chrome there is no good way to get that functionality. The closest approximations I've seen pop up a separate window for the tab tree but that's a terrible kludge and it doesn't play too well with my tiling window manager if I have anything besides the browser on the workspace.

neeee 14y ago

Why not just use short URLs all the time?

nvr219 14y ago
Because it's nice to have a URL that is descriptive so I can get an idea of what I'm clicking on before I click on it. Maybe I've just been goatsed too many times...
- dergachev 14y ago
  In that case, you might enjoy this bookmarklet I made a few weeks ago: http://dergachev.github.com/descriptive-url-bookmarklet/ http://dergachev.github.com/descriptive-url-bookmarklet/ It automatically extracts the title of the current page and appends it to the URL, like so: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-pyuaThp-c#doodling-in-math-class-connecting-dots-youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-pyuaThp-c#doodling-in-math-... http://ihackernews.com/comments/5043231#hacker-news-mobile-devopssysadmin-cheatsheet http://ihackernews.com/comments/5043231#hacker-news-mobile-d... https://github.com/dergachev/chrome-xpath-link/issues/2#create-a-bookmarklet https://github.com/dergachev/chrome-xpath-link/issues/2#crea... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5043231#devopssysadmin-cheatsheet http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5043231#devopssysadmin-c... http://drupal.org/node/1427148#meta-how-should-joke-modules-be-handled http://drupal.org/node/1427148#meta-how-should-joke-modules-... https://gist.github.com/4331769#rule-of-thirds-bookmarklet https://gist.github.com/4331769#rule-of-thirds-bookmarklet http://bl.ocks.org/4360892#u.s.-airports http://bl.ocks.org/4360892#u.s.-airports http://www.redmine.org/issues/12778#defect-12778-upgrade-to-rails-3.2.11-redmine http://www.redmine.org/issues/12778#defect-12778-upgrade-to-... https://twitter.com/dergachev/status/290914183220981760#twitter-dergachev-remembering-aaron-swarz-the-.. https://twitter.com/dergachev/status/290914183220981760#twit.... https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AonYZs4MzlZbdERaRzgxaUcwYXVRZFpaR3ZrekREb2c&hl=en&authkey=CIretNoB#corruption-index https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AonYZs4MzlZbdER... https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-4305#solr-4305-xss-vulnerability-in-solr-/admin/analysis.jsp-asf-jira https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-4305#solr-4305-xs... http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/inl/2434325556.html#best-of-craigslist-ugly-mean-cat-free http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/inl/2434325556.html#bes... http://www.flickr.com/photos/54771108@N07/6959604522/#circus-clown http://www.flickr.com/photos/54771108@N07/6959604522/#circus...

neumann_alfred 14y ago

I pretty much think you should implement all those examples, always, regardless of screen size..

meej 14y ago

I was all "NOOOOOOOOOO!" until I got to the "Seriously?" part, hahaha.

snikch 14y ago
Ditto.

businessleads 14y ago

What's also funny is that the majority of commenters didn't read till the end...

PommeDeTerre 14y ago
Even after reading to the end, I wasn't totally convinced that he wasn't joking about joking. With hash fragments, URL shortening, JavaScript and numerous other obviously-bad ideas being widely considered "acceptable", it's hard to tell when web developers are and aren't serious.

markahern 14y ago

As much as I enjoyed the blog post, I enjoyed reading through the comments to see folks who offer their opinion without having even read to the bottom of what is a short post even more.

kvprashant 14y ago

That' would use up a lot of words in the vocabulary :D

the1 14y ago

responsive content: latex paper gets tl;tr-ed to a tweet on iphone retina display.

jeromeparadis 14y ago

Very original! Although it's a joke, it boggles the mind he actually thought of it and implemented it. Kudos!