On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 13:20 -0700, Kirk Bridger wrote: > I am hesitant to assume that most users connect the address bar of a > web browser with the actual displayed document.
That's a good point - "most users" is always a difficult phrase... > I wonder if most people just remember "Landing page addresses" and > the rest is just noise as they navigate through the various subpages > to get where they want to go. I think that would bear some careful study -- there has already been a lot of study in this area, though, and I don't think it's as clearcut as all that. People do, for example, edit URLs in place, and I don't know of studies on this specific topic. > Flash sites really epitomize this kind of navigation Flash sites are often very broken and not a good thing to hold up as an example to follow. Similarly with sites making heavy use of Frames and violating Web Architecture. What I was trying to suggest is that indicating when the search box, or the URL bar, corresponds to the displayed document/results, and when it doesn't, would in both cases be a good thing, and that it should be done in the same way in both places, and in any other similar places. If users have a fuzzy model, which they probably do in most cases, helping to make things clearer is not a bad thing :-) Best, Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org www.advogato.org _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
