tr.im makes the shortest short-urls ever by virtue of the short address, and also the widget is amazingly useful. You don't even have to copy the URL and paste it in, it gets it automatically from whatever web page you're looking at! Kool.
And you don't have to select and copy it either. Just one click. I like that. I'd like more engineers to think like that. Save clicks. It's only recently that youtube has the cursor already in the searchfield when I arrive. And Amazon still doesn't.
It's only recently that youtube has the cursor already in the searchfield when I arrive. And Amazon still doesn't.
ReplyDeleteAmazon used to this. I didn't know they stopped. Depending on when and how you do it, it's a mistake. It can force a browser to reset its window position to that point and if a page is loading a bit slowly in some part and the user has scrolled down to read. Someone with a highspeed connection would probably never notice this but it's annoying for users on slow connections.
I agree with you Ashley. Even on a high-speed connection, pages tend to take time to load around peak demand time.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I use iGoogle as my home page (with a bunch of RSS feeds on the page, including this blog :). But every once in a while, I open my browser with the intention of typing in a URL, and I find it frustrating that Google will "steal" the focus from the address bar while I'm typing. If at least they would do it immediately, and not once the page is finished loading, which might take a while because of the feeds.
captcha: fookin :-))
OK, the last issue I have tried. But I use the "classic" page, and it usually loads in half a second, so it's rarely a problem.
ReplyDeleteI use http://pikture.net for my images
ReplyDeleteI'm so tired of all these little URLs.
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