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Hiding of http:// prefix
One of the last Chrome devbuild introduced one nice usability feature — hiding of «http://» prefix on address bar, so instead of «http://www.youtube.com» we'll short and nice «www.youtube.com».I think, it will be great to see it in Opera together with domain highlighting.
I don't see how hiding the prefix is useful. Maybe so you can save 10 pixels? But you also lose valuable information: the exact URL to the page you're at. And sometimes knowing whether a URL is http or https is the difference between a 404 and a web page.
I can do without domain highlighting. I don't like having "barely-visible" text for the majority of a URL.
I can do without domain highlighting. I don't like having "barely-visible" text for the majority of a URL.
Whoever said nothing could exceed the speed of light obviously didn't know about Opera
-1, does not really improve readability of the url. Also the "feature" in chrome is heavily debated.
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Completely –1. It obstructs information, serves no practical purpose, can get in the way of anti-phishing education, and it assumes too much from the person visiting the site -- if it were to be taken logically, "www" and ".com" shouldn't be displayed either, so we get with pretty nifty simple words like "youtube" and "opera" in the Address Bar.
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Opera can adapt to the world, but that should not be at the cost of making any of them both stupider
Vehemently -1. There is no real advantage to removing it (does it look ugly? I'd say example.com/ looks uglier and more unbalanced than http://example.com/) and it only causes confusion when the browser has to "guess" how to interpret what you type into the address bar or copy from it (and, judging by the Chrome thread, often getting it wrong).
23. April 2010, 00:51:54 (edited)
Absolutely -1
There's a very good technical reason for it:
Chrome just caught a lot of flack for doing this, it breaks the copy and pasteability of URLS into other programs, like instant messaging apps that rely on the http:// to make it a clickable link. They've tried a few things to fix it like automatically prepending the missing part of the URL into it when you copy, but if you try and copy a small portion of the link, it doesn't work.
They're putting it back in soon because it was the stupidest idea so far.
If you really don't want to see it then remove your address bar. Anyone who can't grasp why it's got what it's got in it probably don't need it anyway. Although saying that, http:// is pretty pointless, but it's there and we can't get rid of it now.
There's a very good technical reason for it:
Chrome just caught a lot of flack for doing this, it breaks the copy and pasteability of URLS into other programs, like instant messaging apps that rely on the http:// to make it a clickable link. They've tried a few things to fix it like automatically prepending the missing part of the URL into it when you copy, but if you try and copy a small portion of the link, it doesn't work.
They're putting it back in soon because it was the stupidest idea so far.
If you really don't want to see it then remove your address bar. Anyone who can't grasp why it's got what it's got in it probably don't need it anyway. Although saying that, http:// is pretty pointless, but it's there and we can't get rid of it now.
Originally posted by ianp5a:
If I type www.something in, and http:// is automatically prefixed to it, its not consistent with what I typed. And I never type http:// in.
And it means nothing to me. It's for geeks only. Get rid of it!
But that's because you are using the abbreviated (and possibly ambiguous/incomplete) structure! So you shouldn't claim a lack of consistency!
Besides, it's not for geeks only. Anyone who wants to check that he is actually visiting the site he intended to visit can make use of checking the full URL.
Although saying that, http:// is pretty pointless, but it's there and we can't get rid of it now.
Sure. Enjoy your not-sure-if-using HTTPS. Or Gopher, if Opera ever gets to support it.
My Wishlist:
SOCKS ALREADY! + Gopher ∥ sys notifications ∥ +Info Panel ∥ dæmon mode ∥ etc
Mi web
GULIX -- Araucanía
Opera can adapt to the world, but that should not be at the cost of making any of them both stupider
SOCKS ALREADY! + Gopher ∥ sys notifications ∥ +Info Panel ∥ dæmon mode ∥ etc
Mi web
GULIX -- Araucanía
Opera can adapt to the world, but that should not be at the cost of making any of them both stupider
23. April 2010, 14:52:48 (edited)