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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.
is an example where there's a hard problem that materializes out of thin air as a result.
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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.
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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.
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?
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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.
There's a lot of comments about this over here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1274591
Hopefully they will eventually fix it so copying from the location bar will include the full url. (Complicated of course by the fact that a user may only copy part of the url, leaving off eg "?foo")
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
Icons.. feh.
I've already been bitten from this change a half-dozen times. Every time I want to share with someone an url I have open in chromium now, I have to manually type " http:// . Hopefully they will eventually fix it so copying from the location bar will include the full url. (Complicated of course by the fact that a user may only copy part of the url, leaving off eg "?foo")
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I doubt that the "average" person would realize that foo.com is different from www.foo.com — or that they could even be different.
But they would probably see abc.foo.com as different from xyz.foo.com
Of course, this is all assuming that they even type the address in, rather then searching.