Easier for users? Maybe. But many despair of change.
Google now peels away a part of the address bar of your browser, Chrome. In the latest development version of Chrome is "http://" already removed.
Feature-wise, this does not seem to be anything but a pure visual simplification of how the URLs presented in the browser.
Nevertheless, there is great disagreement among the Chrome developers and active users of this transition is so clever.
In the discussion forum to Chrome project, there are many who despair.
- To remove the http:// is very short thought. Many blogs, discussion forums, email solutions, instant messengers OSC depends on http:// to auto link to URLs. To remove the http:// will train the users to forget this part. It will have negative consequences for the ease of use over the Internet, writing a.
- This is a bad decision, and should be changed. This is Google using its market dominance to force through an amendment is made payment with the relevant standards, turn another user firm.
Name Space including colon and the trailing lines is formally a part of the address rules on the Internet. HTTP stands for HyperText Transport Protocol, but there are many other namespaces.
URL does not have to point to the Web resource. It could just as easily be about other protocols and services, such as FTP (file transfer protocol), FILE (local file name) MAILTO (email addresses) or many others.
Simplifying that Google now envisage is perfectly natural, says commentator Thom Holwerd of OSNews. He writes the following:
- Namespace in URLs gives little meaning for most people who use browsers. They know it's there and how it is written, but it tells them nothing. Data management has long been about making things less complicated, so it was only a matter of time before browser manufacturers began removing this part of web history.
Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee also found the link rules, URL (Uniform Resource Locator). Berners-Lee later admitted that the slash in URLs are really quite unnecessary.
