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"Super Address Bar" for the next browser

Submitted by blai_cb on July 9, 2009 to Usability

The Windows explorer adress bar has been improved a lot while the IE's one hasn't.

I remember that long time ago I had a toolbar with an "UP one level" button that was fantastic.
It could detect what was the first existing page in a higher level.

It would be nice having this function with the new Vista/7 method.
You could go to the main page of the website clicking on www.???.com
And what if it could also detect the lower levels? From any page you could click the www.???.com arrow, and go to www.???.com/forum for example.

I know that a lot of websites doesn't have an easy structure, and maybe they have pages like www.something.???.com, but I think it would be useful in a lot of cases!
(For example in the Bing's case, see the mockup)

Improve IE's Adress Bar.

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Discussion (7 comments)

Stranger wrote on January 22, 2010, 8:27pm

hideous!

.Chris wrote on January 22, 2010, 8:36pm

It seems like a decent idea, but not sure how it would work wide spread.

Indrek wrote on January 22, 2010, 8:58pm

I don't see an easy way to make this work reliably with all websites (or even the majority), unless the HTTP protocol is updated in some way to accommodate this. Neat idea, yes, but not doable at the moment.

.Chris wrote on January 22, 2010, 9:02pm

What if somehow this worked with those "new tab" pages? but then again theres an extra line of code that is there only for a very small percentage of use (1%)

Jereck wrote on January 22, 2010, 9:05pm

Indrek > It could use the "sitemap.xml" files also used by the Google robots ...

blai_cb wrote on January 22, 2010, 10:22pm

omg! What a pitty that the comments have been lost. There were a lot of good ideas for improve and implement the suggestions. :(

blai_cb wrote on January 22, 2010, 10:29pm

mmm, couldn't be implemented as a new feature of the future html5 for example?

Comment edited on January 23, 2010, 3:49pm

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