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An utter bitch to type compared to a short string of garbage, though, and typing a URL manually (friend gives you a URL over the phone or in person) is the only
by ANTSANTS 12y ago
An utter bitch to type compared to a short string of garbage, though, and typing a URL manually (friend gives you a URL over the phone or in person) is the only case I can think of where the URL itself matters.
- vacri 12y agoOn mobile, perhaps, where you're pecking at a keyboard like a chicken, but with a keyboard it's easier to type.
- Sambdala 12y agoI find it the opposite to be honest, but probably only because I'm using swype on mobile. It's easy to hit random characters when touch typing on a full keyboard, but it's much easier to just swipe a couple words together in the url bar than it is to get the correct capitalization as well as having to hold down the key for about a second each time you need a number.
- thaumasiotes 12y agoIf I need a number, I just swipe down from the letter that the number appears under. No press-and-hold needed. Does that not work on your phone?
- Gravityloss 12y agoThey should choose shorter words.
- Terr_ 12y agoWell, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. I'd rather type out "Ethiopian" than waste time finding out that someone said "bee" instead of "dee" or accidentally putting "e9800998" instead of "e9800098". I've got a ton of pre-arranged neural circuitry, evolved over centuries, trained with decades of live data, all geared towards noticing typos and touch-typing words... It seems shame not to leverage it.