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Re: Google Removes http:// from Chrome

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Post by enomar »

chime wrote: post #27

I like not seeing the http. But I hate that now when you copy-paste, it doesn't do plain-text anymore. When you paste the url in email, it shows a hyperlink to example.com/page while linking to http://example.com/page . I would love it if onfocus event for the address-bar shows the http and selects the full address and copy-paste just copies the plain-text url.

I hate rich text copy/paste. I probably only want to copy formatting 5% of the time. Do any operating systems provide ways to configure how copy/paste works?

Re: Google Removes http:// from Chrome

#32

Post by Qz »

TotlolRon wrote: post #25
Qz wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"...where none existed before." For you maybe, but part of the reason they're removing it is because many average users had no idea what it was for.

The functional confusion stems from the modification of basic copy/paste, not from the removal of data from the address bar.

Oh -- still, that doesn't seem like something that can't be fixed with minor tweaking.

Re: Google Removes http:// from Chrome

#33

Post by jwr »

benofsky wrote: post #2

Considering how much is abstracted from the user these days, I've always wondered why something as technical and meaningless to the average user like " http:// hasn't been removed before. Good move I say.

What would you say about "www.", then? Shouldn't that be removed as meaningless, as opposed to the protocol prefix which a) identifies something as a URL, b) makes it detectable and parseable?

Re: Google Removes http:// from Chrome

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Post by jheriko »

jwr wrote: post #33
benofsky wrote: post #2

Considering how much is abstracted from the user these days, I've always wondered why something as technical and meaningless to the average user like " http:// hasn't been removed before. Good move I say.

What would you say about "www.", then? Shouldn't that be removed as meaningless, as opposed to the protocol prefix which a) identifies something as a URL, b) makes it detectable and parseable?

Not really www.foo.com is distinct from foo.com. http:// is pretty redundant - you usually only want to specify the protocol if its not http.

Re: Google Removes http:// from Chrome

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Post by papachito »

swombat wrote: post #24
ashleyw wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The addition of ' http:// is made by Chrome itself, not OSX.

Understood, but I hear that that doesn't work on, say, Linux. I don't know who's to blame, nor do I care.

Yeah, except it works fine on Linux. Nothing to do you with your beloved OSX.

Re: Google Removes http:// from Chrome

#37

Post by loup-vaillant »

jheriko wrote: post #34
jwr wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What would you say about "www.", then? Shouldn't that be removed as meaningless, as opposed to the protocol prefix which a) identifies something as a URL, b) makes it detectable and parseable?

Not really www.foo.com is distinct from foo.com. http:// is pretty redundant - you usually only want to specify the protocol if its not http.

Omitting the http prefix breaks the links (makes them relative) in some contexts, like some blog comments.

I think people should learn about the http prefix anyway. Even our grandmas. To do that, the best we can do is to let it appear in the url bar.

Re: Google Removes http:// from Chrome

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Post by Zev »

jheriko wrote: post #34
jwr wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What would you say about "www.", then? Shouldn't that be removed as meaningless, as opposed to the protocol prefix which a) identifies something as a URL, b) makes it detectable and parseable?

Not really www.foo.com is distinct from foo.com. http:// is pretty redundant - you usually only want to specify the protocol if its not http.

I doubt that the "average" person would realize that foo.com is different from www.foo.com — or that they could even be different.

Re: Google Removes http:// from Chrome

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Post by GHFigs »

Good move, overall. Every browser I know of automatically inserts the http:// and has for some time now. Removing the visual component of this just completes the abstraction that's already there.

The author suggests replacing the string of text with an icon, like RSS. But the RSS icon quickly went from "standard" to "indecipherable clusterfuck" in practice. http://images.google.com/images?q=rss%20icons

Re: Google Removes http:// from Chrome

#40

Post by Timothee »

enomar wrote: post #31
chime wrote: post #27

I like not seeing the http. But I hate that now when you copy-paste, it doesn't do plain-text anymore. When you paste the url in email, it shows a hyperlink to example.com/page while linking to http://example.com/page . I would love it if onfocus event for the address-bar shows the http and selects the full address and copy-paste just copies the plain-text url.

I hate rich text copy/paste. I probably only want to copy formatting 5% of the time. Do any operating systems provide ways to configure how copy/paste works?

It's not exactly "configuration" but Mac OS apps usually have "Paste" and "Paste and Match Style". The latter being basically a plain text paste with the current app figuring the rest. (that's what it feels like at least)

However, I have seen a few times where it doesn't really work as expected. Not sure why.

And I also dislike rich text copy/paste. One example that comes up often for me is that I copy the link to a comment on HN and paste it to Gmail, and it just shows up as "link". Stupid.

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