Comments on: Death of the Address Bar http://web.2point1.com/2009/04/26/death-of-the-address-bar/ Tim Whitlock's home in the Blogohedron Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:22:24 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Matt King http://web.2point1.com/2009/04/26/death-of-the-address-bar/comment-page-1/#comment-211 Matt King Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:47:27 +0000 http://web.2point1.com/2009/04/26/death-of-the-address-bar/#comment-211 The names escape me right now, but I recall at least 2 movie posters that simply had “Google ” instead of a URL. I’m guessing that this is probably due to most movies having pretty generic titles when converted to a URL (and therefore have probably already been registered). If a URL <em>is</em> used there seems to be a convention of [moviename]themovie.com which obviously gets a bit clumsy with longer film titles. The Google methodology works well for films due to their limited marketing life-span (the same for your optician anecdote), but I can’t see it becoming the norm for site visiting. Looking to the future though, with touch-screens becoming more prolific I wonder if we’ll see a move to gestures to visit sites. For example, for the Star Trek movie, “draw a starfleet badge to visit the site“! ;) The names escape me right now, but I recall at least 2 movie posters that simply had “Google ” instead of a URL. I’m guessing that this is probably due to most movies having pretty generic titles when converted to a URL (and therefore have probably already been registered). If a URL is used there seems to be a convention of [moviename]themovie.com which obviously gets a bit clumsy with longer film titles.

The Google methodology works well for films due to their limited marketing life-span (the same for your optician anecdote), but I can’t see it becoming the norm for site visiting.

Looking to the future though, with touch-screens becoming more prolific I wonder if we’ll see a move to gestures to visit sites. For example, for the Star Trek movie, “draw a starfleet badge to visit the site“! ;)

]]> By: Tim http://web.2point1.com/2009/04/26/death-of-the-address-bar/comment-page-1/#comment-210 Tim Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:41:51 +0000 http://web.2point1.com/2009/04/26/death-of-the-address-bar/#comment-210 Ta for the links! The TV ads made me think of AOL keywords. The kind of people who think that AOL *is* the internet are exactly the kind of people who would find URLs a nasty, technical thing to be fearful of. Ta for the links!
The TV ads made me think of AOL keywords. The kind of people who think that AOL *is* the internet are exactly the kind of people who would find URLs a nasty, technical thing to be fearful of.

]]> By: andy http://web.2point1.com/2009/04/26/death-of-the-address-bar/comment-page-1/#comment-209 andy Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:36:11 +0000 http://web.2point1.com/2009/04/26/death-of-the-address-bar/#comment-209 I think a lot of this makes a lot of sense. I agree with Tokhir though. I too use the address bar mainly for autofill speediness. Makes sense that the http:// etc should go away. Maybe AOL keywords had it right all that time ago ;) Maybe the address bar will disappear until you roll over it. Last bit of rambling. I presume you've seen this too: http://labs.mozilla.com/projects/ubiquity/ http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/ubiquity-in-depth/ I think a lot of this makes a lot of sense.

I agree with Tokhir though. I too use the address bar mainly for autofill speediness.

Makes sense that the http:// etc should go away. Maybe AOL keywords had it right all that time ago ;)

Maybe the address bar will disappear until you roll over it.

Last bit of rambling. I presume you’ve seen this too:

http://labs.mozilla.com/projects/ubiquity/
http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/ubiquity-in-depth/

]]> By: Tokhir Dadaev http://web.2point1.com/2009/04/26/death-of-the-address-bar/comment-page-1/#comment-207 Tokhir Dadaev Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:49:09 +0000 http://web.2point1.com/2009/04/26/death-of-the-address-bar/#comment-207 This is exactly what I have been pondering lately. But I would not say the address bar should disappear completely, it should get smarter. Like in Mozilla I type map and it takes me to http://maps.google.com/ bbc and it takes me to http://www.bbc.co.uk/ wiki and it takes me to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Maybe the address bar should not display http, .com, www...etc, but only the name of the website: the address bar is the new header of the website? This is exactly what I have been pondering lately. But I would not say the address bar should disappear completely, it should get smarter.

Like in Mozilla I type
map and it takes me to http://maps.google.com/
bbc and it takes me to http://www.bbc.co.uk/
wiki and it takes me to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Maybe the address bar should not display http, .com, http://www…etc, but only the name of the website: the address bar is the new header of the website?

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