Re: The location field; a vestige from the early days!

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Re: The location field; a vestige from the early days!
by Herman Robak on Wednesday 23/Nov/2005, @01:34

If the address field was read-only, changing the display to something more readable and structured would be trivial.

However, it is editable. The users expect to be able to paste raw URLs into it, and to edit those URLs freely. Because of this, any change is likely to upset a lot of users.

If the address field accepts a full URL with query strings as input, yet hide the query strings when the links are accessed by clicking them, then it breaks the "principle of least surprise". How could one make it clearer to the user what is going on? Press Tab to switch from raw to formatted URL? (too power-user-ish, IMHO)

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