What happens when you type Google.com into your browser's address box
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Re: What happens when you type Google.com into your browser's address box
#2Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902105
Re: What happens when you type Google.com into your browser's address box
#3when i type 'g', the autocomplete feature suggests 'gmail.com'. After typing 'g', i type 'oo' and the suggestion feature suggests 'google.com' on its own. I do not have to type the complete 'google.com'. i type 'goo' and then i can press enter
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#4The posts misses out the bit where the NSA scan your text and keep it in a big database, ready to use it against you any time you step out of line.
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#5The DNS, ARP, and Socket sections need an update; they're all IPv4-specific.
Re: What happens when you type Google.com into your browser's address box
#6when i type 'g', the autocomplete feature suggests 'gmail.com'. After typing 'g', i type 'oo' and the suggestion feature suggests 'google.com' on its own. I do not have to type the complete 'google.com'. i type 'goo' and then i can press enter
The article chooses as its starting point the ENTER key hitting the bottom of its travel -- how you got the url or whatever into the address bar doesn't really matter.
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#7when i type 'g', the autocomplete feature suggests 'gmail.com'. After typing 'g', i type 'oo' and the suggestion feature suggests 'google.com' on its own. I do not have to type the complete 'google.com'. i type 'goo' and then i can press enter
The article chooses as its starting point the ENTER key hitting the bottom of its travel -- how you got the url or whatever into the address bar doesn't really matter.
Yes it matters. Autocomplete (either local or 100ms network database lookup) is a whole other layer of fascinating computer science+engineering.
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#8The posts misses out the bit where the NSA scan your text and keep it in a big database, ready to use it against you any time you step out of line.
I was waiting how long it would take until someone made a witty NSA comment.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
The article chooses as its starting point the ENTER key hitting the bottom of its travel -- how you got the url or whatever into the address bar doesn't really matter.
Yes it matters. Autocomplete (either local or 100ms network database lookup) is a whole other layer of fascinating computer science+engineering.
It does not matter for the purposes of this project. You could go even further back and look at how the browser renders the location bar, how the OS starts the browser, how the machine boots the OS.... None of those matter, even if they are interesting in their own right.
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#10Question: Where is text rendered? on the gpu or cpu?