Re: ACTION6: URL display as anti-pattern

"Michael(tm) Smith" <mikes@opera.com>, 2006-12-06 21:47 +0900:

> The URL information in the location bar is useful for more than
> just providing security-context information, and I think users
> might lose more if it were suppressed than they gain by having it
> displayed.

um, I realize now that sentence doesn't make a whole lot of sense
(sorry, I'm jetlagged and a little loopy). What I really should
have written instead is that while I realize users might gain
something in terms of fraud protection from having it suppressed,
they'd lose other information value that the URL provides.

  --Mike

Received on Wednesday, 6 December 2006 13:00:18 UTC