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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by dgb23 on Friday August 14, 2020 @01:09PM (#24160461)
The root domain is highlighted in FF. This must be enough for visual testing.

If you want a more reliable approach then you need to work with a whitelist and clear warnings.

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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by summerlight on Friday August 14, 2020 @01:57PM (#24161048)
I wouldn't assert it without strong evidence. This URL comprehension problem is probably more complex than what people usually think. There are a number of studies about this issue, if you're interested.

https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-... https://kumarde.com/papers/urls.pdf

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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by dgb23 on Friday August 14, 2020 @02:13PM (#24161297)
Thank you for those! Side question:

I don't have a formal education in CS, but I really enjoy reading papers on programming (languages), architecture, data-engineering and web related things among others, especially when they have a practical focus/impact.

Is there a good way for me to find or rather discover resources like these?

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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by automatoney on Friday August 14, 2020 @03:10PM (#24162021)
Not sure about filtering for practical focus/impact but https://arxiv.org/ is an amazingly useful and informative repository of papers that you might like. Also google scholar is good, but more general.
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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by Corrado on Saturday August 15, 2020 @03:48AM (#24166874)
> The root domain is highlighted in FF. This must be enough for visual testing.

I've been using Firefox for years and never realized this. Looking up at the top of my browser, I can see that "ycombinator.com" is highlighted and the rest of the URL is a darker grey. To me, this seems like a good compromise; you still get the full URL but the important parts stand out a bit more.

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