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Re: Safari 8.0 gripe

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On 2014-08-01, Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> In article <c41s7vF5il7U11@mid.individual.net>,
>  Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2014-08-01, Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
>> > In article <c41r2bF5il7U5@mid.individual.net>, Jolly Roger
>> ><jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> And yes, I mentioned in my other reply that hand-editing the URL can
>> >> pose the same problem. Naturally, you can't view pages that don't exist
>> >> or that are not allowed by the web server in question, regardless of how
>> >> you get there.
>> >
>> > So the question remains as to what advantages there are to hand editing
>> > the URL compared to using the popup menu?  (Well, in Safari 8, the
>> > advantage is that there is no popup menu, but what about earlier
>> > versions?)
>> 
>> Maybe none. I don't really care that much about it, honestly. It's just
>> not something I spend a whole lot of time doing to begin with.
>> Personally I expect selecting a menu item to do something useful. While
>> it seems to be a nice feature, I don't consider holding a key on the
>> keyboard while clicking a title bar to be any more efficient than simply
>> editing the URL directly by hand.  Like I said, to each, his own. Choice
>> is good. : )
>
> If it's a long URL, hand editing it can be a pain since the URL field is 
> just one line. Getting to the appropriate place in the URL is sometimes 
> tricky.

Yeah, that's a good point too.

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Safari 8.0 gripe Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-07-30 13:29 -0700
  Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-31 00:09 +0000
    Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-07-30 17:24 -0700
      Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-07-30 18:16 -0700
        Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-31 02:00 +0000
          Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-31 04:18 +0000
            Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-07-30 21:38 -0700
              Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-31 16:02 +0000
                Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-07-31 18:22 -0400
                Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-07-31 21:10 -0700
                Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-07-31 21:09 -0700
                Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-08-01 04:21 +0000
                Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-07-31 22:45 -0700
                Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-08-01 14:01 +0000
                Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-08-01 11:00 -0400
                Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-08-01 15:18 +0000
                Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-08-01 11:22 -0400
                Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-08-01 15:29 +0000
                Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-08-01 08:36 -0700
                Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-08-01 15:46 +0000
                Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-08-01 08:57 -0700
                Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-08-01 16:06 +0000
                Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-08-01 17:41 -0400
                Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-08-01 22:03 +0000
        Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-07-30 20:20 -0700
  Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-08-01 15:25 +0000
    Re: Safari 8.0 gripe Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-08-01 08:44 -0700

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