On Monday 04 June 2007 18:11:08 Liam R E Quin wrote: > 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
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