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Why not make your URLs responsive?

74 points| jamesjyu | 13 years ago |responsiveurl.co.uk | reply

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[+] meej|13 years ago|reply
I was all "NOOOOOOOOOO!" until I got to the "Seriously?" part, hahaha.
[+] jfoster|13 years ago|reply
Doesn't seem like such a bad idea to do this for page titles. When I have lots of tabs open, each of my tabs is less wide than it would be if it were the only tab open. Nearly every tab has a truncated title in it.
[+] ibrahima|13 years ago|reply
Especially when a lot of sites include their name at the beginning of the title, I just end up with a lot of tabs titled things like Comm.. and Hack.. etc. When I use Firefox I use Tree Style Tabs so it's not a problem but with Chrome there is no good way to get that functionality. The closest approximations I've seen pop up a separate window for the tab tree but that's a terrible kludge and it doesn't play too well with my tiling window manager if I have anything besides the browser on the workspace.
[+] neeee|13 years ago|reply
Why not just use short URLs all the time?
[+] nvr219|13 years ago|reply
Because it's nice to have a URL that is descriptive so I can get an idea of what I'm clicking on before I click on it. Maybe I've just been goatsed too many times...
[+] thesagan|13 years ago|reply
I believe clean, understandable URLs also help search engines index content more appropriately (and supposedly helps rankings), but with the speed and opaqueness of exactly how indexing works I could be wrong these days.

Edit: I should have said "...of exactly how search algorithms work..."

[+] JakeSc|13 years ago|reply
Interesting demo, even just for its novelty. I would never have thought to do this. Thanks for sharing.
[+] neumann_alfred|13 years ago|reply
I pretty much think you should implement all those examples, always, regardless of screen size..
[+] markahern|13 years ago|reply
As much as I enjoyed the blog post, I enjoyed reading through the comments to see folks who offer their opinion without having even read to the bottom of what is a short post even more.
[+] cstrat|13 years ago|reply
hahaha I like it.

It isn't that far fetched though, using canonical meta tags you can preserve the main your links on search engines (so you don't SEO ruin yourself).

Most sites have multiple ways to access the same articles/content... no reason not to use a simplified version of this for mobile access. What I mean is, when a mobile is detected use simplified/shortened URLs. Helps if you are copying or manually entering URLs in texts etc...

[+] jeromeparadis|13 years ago|reply
Very original! Although it's a joke, it boggles the mind he actually thought of it and implemented it. Kudos!
[+] the1|13 years ago|reply
responsive content: latex paper gets tl;tr-ed to a tweet on iphone retina display.
[+] businessleads|13 years ago|reply
What's also funny is that the majority of commenters didn't read till the end...
[+] PommeDeTerre|13 years ago|reply
Even after reading to the end, I wasn't totally convinced that he wasn't joking about joking. With hash fragments, URL shortening, JavaScript and numerous other obviously-bad ideas being widely considered "acceptable", it's hard to tell when web developers are and aren't serious.
[+] yefim323|13 years ago|reply
This ruins the history and is not supported on most Android browsers.
[+] novum|13 years ago|reply
> Seriously? Hahahaha, no. This is an absolutely terrible idea, please don't ever do this!

Last paragraph. :)

[+] kvprashant|13 years ago|reply
That' would use up a lot of words in the vocabulary :D
[+] jQueryIsAwesome|13 years ago|reply
I want responsive favicons... thing is; I'm not joking; it would be very useful if every site had a 128px * 128px and 640px * 640px versions of their favicons (logos?).
[+] joshguthrie|13 years ago|reply
IIRC, the HTML5 Boilerplate came bundled with icons of various sizes for Apple devices.