Re:Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users
by asdff on Thursday October 14, 2021 @01:37PM
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On the other hand, I can't think of any advantage myself to having these things be discrete boxes, and I know what a search term and a URL is (as I'm sure most users do, give them some credit here). Corner cases rarely happen and if I think something might look like a url but is a search term, you can prepend the term with whitespace. Ultimately having them not be discrete boxes means I can see more of the url before it folds, which I prefer.
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Re:Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users
by abruzzi on Thursday October 14, 2021 @03:30PM
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Corner cases happen every day where I work. Specifically, we have an internal domain, and many users, rather than typing finance.pdq.xy.pg (made up domain) we like to type finance to go directly to the correct server. But we can't because 9 times out of 10 chrome/safari/edge interpret as a search. I either have to remember to put in a trailing slash, i.e. finance/ or type the FQDN. Thats the only reason I use firefox--I can separate search from urls.