The Internet age is convenient for the king, URL future will be how

Hunting Cloud Net Note: What is the URL? Have you ever paid attention to the complicated symbols that you are browsing over the Web? Major search engines are trying to omit the main domain name after the complex symbol name, the results of these attempts? Is the URL about to disappear into the history of the river? Or will it have a new look with improvements and optimizations? I hope this article can help you.

URL, translated Uniform Resource Locator (that is, web address), as the common language of the Internet user interface for decades, the browser window without it can not display correctly. But as the Web page has evolved to be driven by a graphical interactive interface, with a priority for mobile ports and an application-oriented user operating system, URLs are still a legacy of arcane imperative programs in the origins of the Internet. Why is that?

Both Apple and Google seem to be thinking about the problem. A quick review of their browser applications seems to indicate that URLs are gradually being shut out slowly and firmly. Apple's latest version Safari web browser only displays the primary domain name (such as apple.com) on the address bar. Google browsers have encouraged users to use the Address bar as a search bar in recent years.

At present, Google will be mobile search application complete URL buried in a small submenu. At the same time, hackers can still use the defective URL address, in broad daylight fraud and identity theft (The Hunt Cloud Network editor Note: Identity theft refers to the use of other people's name, personal information, etc. to obtain credit cards, other items or from other people's accounts to withdraw cash, etc.)

How can we find new ways to solve this problem in today's time?

Jon Bell, a Twitter designer, treats this sort of detail with a strict 10,000-word user experience. I asked him my question. Bell's opening remark quotes Jobs ' comments on computer technology in the post-PC era: Computers are going to be like trucks, they still exist, but only for the one who needs them.

Bell says the URL is going through a very similar transformation. In the golden age of the network, people want to accurately enter the page address in order to see the online search for resources, but now no one is willing to enter the Address bar complex page address just to see how the page appears. We are also less reliant on SEO than we used to, let alone relying on search engine optimization.

Bell stressed: "In the URL, all the symbols behind. com are huge truck fillers." That's why Apple's nuclear google is trying to stop emphasizing the full URL address. For us ordinary people. URLs have two meanings:

First, tell us the location of the page and the information about the Web page we will be browsing. (Bell added, "Let's see if we can continue to read the articles on the Times page or stay on Twitter pages.")

Second, provide a specific, portable Platform Wizard. (or, like the Magic Subway in the Web world, just insert something in the top of your browser, and then, poof, you get where you want to be.) ）

However, the implementation of these two functions does not necessarily require a long string of text or the need to enter characters at all to reach the interface you want to go. Last year, Google did a quiz to try to discard its browser URL and try to use the "Origin Chip" (Cloud Editor: Origin chip, in fact, is to hide the full address, only on the left side of the site to display the main domain name. Instead of the URL ... This way the address bar on the top of the page shrinks a lot. (But just click the URL to see the full domain name)

The idea is to hide the coded language of the full URL, Origin chip may help users better identify phishing attacks. For example, one of the first half looks like the website of the Bank of America's website "Bankofamerica.com.ref.xnx.io" The main domain name is actually Xnx.io, not bankofamerica.com. If the origin chip exclude code language only leaves the primary domain name, A security warning appears when you click Xnx.io.

This seems to be an obvious improvement, why does Google not continue to push the project? The reason is: The result is difficult to expect. During the experiment, the security personnel discovered that the problem of "origin chip" is that the anti-fishing function is completely unable to achieve.

Redesigning an aging identification system is a lot harder than it looks, so Google believes that the risk of introducing an unfamiliar control and an unpredictable security vulnerability into a seemingly already relatively perfect user interface is much higher. Bell says that's why people may see a hint of vulnerabilities in new software every other day. Because the smartest people in the world can't predict when the risk will come. ”

The mobile operating system is now available to share Web pages, this sharing does not need to copy and paste URLs, just click the share key. But in addition to the debugging issues, what prevents us from reducing the text display of the URL, will this process be the same as the Apple Macintosh PC to abolish the command bar?

(Macintosh Note: The Macintosh is the second computer that uses the graphical user interface (GUI) for the Apple Computer following Lisa.) The Macintosh, for the first time, has applied the graphical user interface extensively to personal computers. ）

For Bell, it's like the difference between an apple and an orange. The URL is not the same as the command line and has never been used on Macintosh or Windows users. The value of these products is not used by the keyboard, but the URL text address for each network user is very familiar with things, this is the biggest difference between them.

Not only that, in the global digital media, a number of trillions of websites and information are unique, then show the specificity of the pure text address and difficult to replace sex. In fact, the URL is the real name of the Web page, as deep links continue to integrate applications and Web pages, virtual reality interface such as virtual reality glasses promise immersive user experience, URL links can no longer be abstracted alone. After all, Macintosh users and Windows users still need to type icons representing files and directories.

Do you care what the URL eventually becomes? ' We don't really care about that, ' said Bell. People only care about whether mobile apps and Web pages can connect to each other properly. The URL will also continue to exist.

Source:medium