When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

Post by recursive » Fri, Jun 26, 2020, 1:04 AM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #49

logicNSci wrote: post #41

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"It just works" - Apple Marketing I remember when I believed it. Then I actually got an iPhone and it killed that idea. Cool box and fun signup, but it never felt quite intuitive.

"It just works" is absolutely still a thing; it's just that not everything "just works". And with Feedback Assistant being as bad as it is, shouting on Hacker News is the best I can do to get things fixed :(

Post by dannyw » Fri, Jun 26, 2020, 1:08 AM UTC

snowwrestler wrote: post #114

jameshawkins wrote: post #5

I just tried this on Safari on my phone - I was sent to Realtor.com as well. I tried it a few times and was redirected each time, even though I typed "realty.com" in the URL bar (and it didn't auto-correct before I hit "Go").

I typed in realty.com and went straight to realty.com. iPhone 11 running iOS 13.5.1. I can’t reproduce any of these behaviors. Edit: I have “Suggestions in Search” turned off, maybe that’s it?

Post by freehunter » Fri, Jun 26, 2020, 1:11 AM UTC

mikewhy wrote: post #90

grawprog wrote: post #84

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Reading through yours and the other comments here...I just can't even understand...who came up with the idea of changing key word searches into autocompleting URLs? Personally, I still find the idea of a URL bar doubling as a search bar a bit disconcerting as it is. I expect specific behaviour from a URL bar. I type in an address and either it takes me to what I type or it can't find it. This behaviour everyone's des…

TBH I quite like it, especially in chrome. I can type "GitHub [project name] pulls" and it will take me where I want to go, I can type "app.dev myfeature" and it will go suggest "app.dev.company.com/some/deep/path-abcd1234/myfeature"

Post by freehunter » Fri, Jun 26, 2020, 1:13 AM UTC

grawprog wrote: post #95

mikewhy wrote: post #90

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TBH I quite like it, especially in chrome. I can type "GitHub [project name] pulls" and it will take me where I want to go, I can type "app.dev myfeature" and it will go suggest "app.dev.company.com/some/deep/path-abcd1234/myfeature"

Sure that's great, but that should either be separate from the address bar or at the very least shouldn't be so 'default' for lack of a better term, that just clicking without thinking activates that behaviour. For people like yourself that use it to its full advantage I won't argue that is a good feature. For the majority of people trying to make a simple search, it doesn't seem so helpful. I feel like default behav…

Post by ehsankia » Fri, Jun 26, 2020, 1:15 AM UTC

mikewhy wrote: post #90

grawprog wrote: post #84

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Reading through yours and the other comments here...I just can't even understand...who came up with the idea of changing key word searches into autocompleting URLs? Personally, I still find the idea of a URL bar doubling as a search bar a bit disconcerting as it is. I expect specific behaviour from a URL bar. I type in an address and either it takes me to what I type or it can't find it. This behaviour everyone's des…

TBH I quite like it, especially in chrome. I can type "GitHub [project name] pulls" and it will take me where I want to go, I can type "app.dev myfeature" and it will go suggest "app.dev.company.com/some/deep/path-abcd1234/myfeature"