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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: 1) by halcyon1234 on Friday May 02 2014, @01:10PM

    by halcyon1234 (1082) on Friday May 02 2014, @01:10PM (#38889)

    What next, will they remove the browser's display of an anchor's hyperlink so you have no clue where the link you might click goes?

    Well, they could always hide the Status Bar by default (or remove it as a feature all together). And then they could encourage everyone to use URL shortening services... perhaps by even automatically replacing all URLs server-side on most pages. And even if you look beyond the shorturl, you won't get an informative URL, because all hyperlinks are just n-deep layer of redirects to various click-trackers before finally reaching the destination.

    So in other words-- how things are right fucking now. =(

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