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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 tangomargarine on Thursday May 01 2014, @08:42PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Thursday May 01 2014, @08:42PM (#38639)

    In a phrase, the reasoning behind this. Fuck the UI experts who think this is a good idea. Fuck them long, and fuck them hard. I value actual functionality; apparently this is a silly position to hold, though.

    People who've announced retarded UI changes this week:
    [X] Mozilla
    [X] Google Chrome
    [  ] Microsoft Windows
    [  ] X-Box One/PS-4
    [  ] Ubuntu

    Any bets?

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  • (Score: 1) by GeminiDomino on Thursday May 01 2014, @08:51PM

    by GeminiDomino (661) on Thursday May 01 2014, @08:51PM (#38647)

    To be fair, Mozilla announced theirs a couple of weeks back. They just shat them on us this week...

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