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on Thursday May 01 2014, @07:37PM
from the now-all-those-URLs-I-memorized-are-worthless dept.
from the now-all-those-URLs-I-memorized-are-worthless dept.
Yesterday, a Canary build of Google Chrome removed something kind of important from the browser: the URL. Basically, it only shows the domain and leaves the rest of the URL bar as a search field.
Allen Pike, a blogger who writes "about technology and crap like that" suggests burying the URL like this will probably have some usability and security benefits. From the article:
More recently, browsers started hiding the URL scheme. http:// was no more, as far as most users were concerned. In iOS 7, Mobile Safari went even further and hid everything about the URL except the domain. With the Chrome "origin chip" change, the URL will move out of the field entirely, to a tidy little button that many users will never even realize is clickable.
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For recreational use only.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 01 2014, @07:56PM
That could be next, but why don't we just skip to the end and make a pageless internet. No more annoying bs anywhere, just nothingness. In that internet of the future, there is no need for net neutrality, since there is nothing. It's also safe.
(Score: 1) by dast on Thursday May 01 2014, @08:17PM
Best suggestion ever.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday May 01 2014, @08:45PM
AdBlock <html />. Then the UX guys will probably cream themselves at the beautiful white nothingness.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by forsythe on Thursday May 01 2014, @09:10PM
I can only think of one way to make that better. Instead of white, off-white. Sort of light-gray-ish. Eggshell, I think they call it.
So is the world going to just send me a check, or will it be deposited to my bank account directly?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 01 2014, @09:17PM
We'll send an off-white blank piece of paper.
(Score: 1) by Horse With Stripes on Thursday May 01 2014, @11:29PM
The UX people will not like a blank page because the white space will not have two directions off of the page. "Any direction" is only one direction, just ask any designer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 01 2014, @08:58PM
The trend is unification. Let's put all the content on one page accessible through only 15 convenient plugins.