{"id":290,"date":"2013-09-09T06:29:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T06:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=290"},"modified":"2021-11-17T11:18:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T11:18:19","slug":"showing-urls-in-the-browsers-left-bottom-corner-why-is-it-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"Showing URLs in the browser&#8217;s left bottom corner &#8211; why is it good?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have come across <a href=\"http:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/ie\/forum\/ie9-windows_7\/links-show-up-in-bottom-corner-of-browser-screen\/99da073b-e057-4438-8367-878103bf8afb?msgId=f14f9d4c-7e14-4b73-950a-6fca97f687de\">debates<\/a> on the web against <strong>the URLs showing up in the browser&#8217;s left bottom corner<\/strong> if one hovers the mouse over a link. I <strong>advocate against hiding the URLs<\/strong> (except in some occasions such as in <a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/15520474\/how-to-hide-the-url-of-the-browsers-left-bottom-corner-when-a-link-is-hovered\">this guy&#8217;s giving a presentation<\/a>) <strong>for security reasons<\/strong>. See the below example:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/blog2.png\" class=\"no_float\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is an email with an invoice from supposedly NetSuite<\/strong>. But <strong>hovering over the link<\/strong> in the email <strong>the URL in the left corner<\/strong> reveals that it <strong>is<\/strong> not from netsuite.com but rather <strong>from saav.fr<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe it looks ugly, maybe a lot of people don&#8217;t care, maybe a lot of them don&#8217;t want it. But <strong>don&#8217;t take it away from power users<\/strong> please (as <a href=\"index.php?\/archives\/300-Widows-8,-Windows-Explorer-annoyances-and-Miller-Columns.html\">MS took away the status bar in Windows Explorer<\/a>). I often want to see where the link I&#8217;m trying to click on will take me.<\/p>\n<p>I also want to keep the browser&#8217;s address bar! Am I a lonesome cowboy with such view?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have come across debates on the web against the URLs showing up in the browser&#8217;s left bottom corner if one hovers the mouse over a link. I advocate against hiding the URLs (except in some occasions such as in this guy&#8217;s giving a presentation) for security reasons. See the below example: This is an&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5-physical-interfaces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1095,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/1095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}