pofme.com Google Chrome Ditches
http://
Posted by POFME.com on April 23rd,
2010
When you see some text prefixed by “http://” you
automatically know that what follows is a web
address, as defined by the Hypertext Transfer
Protocol. The question is — since most web addresses
are easily recognizable anyway — do you really need
it?
The developers of Google Chrome() don’t think you
do, so they simply chose to hide it in a developer
version of Chrome.
The solution might not be that simple, though.
You can hide the http:// bit from a web address, but
it doesn’t mean it’s not really there. Worse — as
seen from the comments from the Chromium wiki
thread, where this feature was actually reported as
a bug — it might cause problems for users.
“Many blogs, message boards, email viewing
software, instant messaging software, etc. depend on
matching against http:// to auto-link URLs. Removing
http:// will train end-users to omit it, which will
have a negative impact on usability all over the
web,” one commenter says.
An example of this is Google Talk’s()
auto-linking of URL fragments; other issues include
copying and pasting web addresses and other related
bugs. The folks at Chrome() are right about one
thing: The “http://” part of the web address serves
little purpose and mostly creates noise. The
question is: Will hiding it solve the problem?
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