Re:Show HN: Dofsome.com - Chrome-less photo hosting
by supo on Saturday November 10, 2012 @01:27PM
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Wow that is a pretty extreme idea. With dofsome we wanted to achieve nice interface + smooth flow between photos (eg when you go photo -> grid, the photo you came from is highlighted etc).
This would probably be disrupted if you had to manually change the url and not just 'click on things'.
But as others are saying, we definitely have stuff to improve about urls (e.g. the album title in url etc).
Re:Show HN: Dofsome.com - Chrome-less photo hosting
by izak30 on Saturday November 10, 2012 @01:10PM
(#4767238)
Pretty sure my mom has never tried to guess a URL. URLs should be great, you should treat them as a first-class user interface, but not the only one.
Re:Show HN: Dofsome.com - Chrome-less photo hosting
by imissmyjuno on Saturday November 10, 2012 @12:23PM
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Argument against: some browsers don't show the URL, e.g. Firefox on Android, which shows the page title in the URL bar when the focus is away from the field.
Re:Show HN: Dofsome.com - Chrome-less photo hosting
by 3amOpsGuy on Saturday November 10, 2012 @12:39PM
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Safari for iOS is probably a less obscure example - as you scroll down the page, the address bar will scroll off screen.
These interactions are expected by their users, and they know how to navigate around them.
I wouldn't be hasty and say i don't think it'd be a material concern, on the contrary, it could make for some interesting A/B testing!
The small black navigation bar at the top of the screen could be done away with, if you change your URL structure to be more easily understood & manipulated.
From shoulder surfing various people of various levels of tech experience, i've noticed they are quite happy to edit a logically structured url in the address bar to navigate where they want to go quickly. For example, if the site doesn't provide an easy "up one level" ability.