Comments on: How Friendly Will a URL Ever Be?

By: Ric Roberts

Ric Roberts — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:01:44 +0000

Great article, Sam. Urls are becoming part of the language of the web (and popular culture). I think they’re here to stay.

We wrote an article on our company-blog on the importance of good urls a while back, which you might find interesting. http://blog.swirrl.com/articles/2008/07/14/the-importance-of-good-urls

By: Graeme

Graeme — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:32:15 +0000

“I just wish that more of our internal hardware had hostnames as well”… I’m sure they did once upon a time ;)

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By: Mister.de

Mister.de — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:39:04 +0000

interesting post :)

By: markus

markus — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:00:15 +0000

I actually saw this mostly with old people.

The younger people learn about 10000x faster and rarely do this. And I believe if you give the old people more time, sooner or later they will discover their ways too.

By: David Lindop

David Lindop — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:18:40 +0000

Tim, is that relevant?

Here’s my two-pence worth… I personally use the FireFox address bar and bookmarks more than any other navigation aid, although my job means I can’t completely lose track of URLs, and even direct IP addresses to some degree. I used to use Launchy, but the FireFox 3 made this pretty redundant.

I’ve started to use Ubiquity more and more, especially with the MAP command. However, it just isn’t reliable enough on its EMAIL command, which is a shame because it promises so much. I’ve noticed too that browser address bars now seem to cater for many different navigational personalities; Google Chrome is pretty darn good too in this way.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:33:25 +0000

As you mentioned, I think that Google’s Chrome has already begun the path of conversion to natural language by merging the ‘search bar’ and the ‘address bar.’ As search results get smarter, people will less and less use exact URLs, and instead just type in keywords for the content they want to see.

By: thomas

thomas — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:22:36 +0000

I bought the domain offered.in and i am working on a framework so i can have everything.offered.in/everywhere

What is your opinion about that?