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Chrome Experiments with URL-less Web

posted by Woods on Thursday May 01 2014, @07:37PM   Printer-friendly
from the now-all-those-URLs-I-memorized-are-worthless dept.

Ja'Achan writes:

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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  • (Score: 2) by istartedi on Friday May 02 2014, @02:39AM

    by istartedi (123) on Friday May 02 2014, @02:39AM (#38726) Journal

    Since their slogan was "don't be Evil" I always figured they'd end up as one of the most evil companies on the planet. That's just the way humanity is. Anything idealistic tends to get perverted. The more idealistic it is, the more perverse it tends to be. Hence, "don't be Evil" is likely to get about as perverse as it comes. This is only the beginning. The ultimate Google API to be placed in the browser, your car, and just about anything else will be reduced to a single button marked "Submit".

    Oh crap... I'm using Chrome on Soylent and it's already happening. Oh well... no choice but to push it...

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  • (Score: 2) by istartedi on Friday May 02 2014, @02:42AM

    by istartedi (123) on Friday May 02 2014, @02:42AM (#38727) Journal

    Awww crap, I meant to put "UI" not "API".

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