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I don't understand all the resistance to this. It's doing the work that currently all non-programmer users of the web (the vast majority) have to do themselves

I don't understand all the resistance to this. It's doing the work that currently all non-programmer users of the web (the vast majority) have to do themselves every time they look at a URL - parse out the meaning. For example, when my wife is checking our credit card charges, she isn't using "https://online.americanexpress.com" https://online.americanexpress.com". She's using "Amex's website". That's how she would tell me what she's doing; that's how she thinks about it. She doesn't give a damn what the URL is, and that's why phishing works in the first place. This new UI simply reflects how most people think about the web. Everyone on HN who has been arguing against this is missing a huge point: this isn't for you. We still do everything in our terminals for Christ's sake. Nobody has taken that away from us. Nobody is going to take URLs away either. But just like the terminal application they will be shuffled away into a "utilities" drawer where you have to look for them because they were designed for machines, not people. Those of us who work with machines can still have them. I can't wait for this to ship.

TazeTSchnitzel 13y ago
I like how myself and my (not all technical) friends know what URLs are and can copy them if they want to link me to something. Now they probably won't be able to figure out how.
- artursapek 13y ago
  Have you even tried using this feature? You can enable it in chrome://flags. You can still copy and paste the URL just fine. Thanks for the downvote. I'd love to hear you refute my argument, rather than spew nonsense complaints.
  - NaNaN 13y ago
    chrome://flags/#origin-chip-in-omnibox
mnutt 13y ago
I got it about a week and a half ago in Canary, and I stuck with it for about a week until it was disabled. I didn't like the idea but I'm interested in new UI experiments. I hated it. Not only for the reasons other people mention (it makes copying and pasting cognitively more difficult, and even after a week it didn't really get any easier) but also because I would argue that on sites with halfway-decent URLs, it's a navigation device. We already lost the title bar, and apparently the URL bar was acting as secondary indicator of what page I'm on. It was really, really disorienting. I do wonder whether Google only planned to display the feature for a week, or if it got feedback from my navigation habits and disabled it. And what, if any, indicators they're using to measure success. (or at least non-failure)
- artursapek 13y ago
  > but also because I would argue that on sites with halfway-decent URLs, it's a navigation device I agree, but I will argue that websites that suddenly seem disorienting without a URL are poorly designed. If we take away the crutch they will have to stop relying on it and improve.

TazeTSchnitzel 13y ago

I like how myself and my (not all technical) friends know what URLs are and can copy them if they want to link me to something. Now they probably won't be able to figure out how.

artursapek 13y ago
Have you even tried using this feature? You can enable it in chrome://flags. You can still copy and paste the URL just fine. Thanks for the downvote. I'd love to hear you refute my argument, rather than spew nonsense complaints.
- NaNaN 13y ago
  chrome://flags/#origin-chip-in-omnibox

mnutt 13y ago

I got it about a week and a half ago in Canary, and I stuck with it for about a week until it was disabled. I didn't like the idea but I'm interested in new UI experiments. I hated it. Not only for the reasons other people mention (it makes copying and pasting cognitively more difficult, and even after a week it didn't really get any easier) but also because I would argue that on sites with halfway-decent URLs, it's a navigation device. We already lost the title bar, and apparently the URL bar was acting as secondary indicator of what page I'm on. It was really, really disorienting. I do wonder whether Google only planned to display the feature for a week, or if it got feedback from my navigation habits and disabled it. And what, if any, indicators they're using to measure success. (or at least non-failure)

artursapek 13y ago
> but also because I would argue that on sites with halfway-decent URLs, it's a navigation device I agree, but I will argue that websites that suddenly seem disorienting without a URL are poorly designed. If we take away the crutch they will have to stop relying on it and improve.