auto complete web address

[harvard]

Auto completion of web address while typing.

[mmadia]

For previously entered URLs, a list of matches will display as the user types. Setting this as closed.

[leavengood]

I think the reporter means more like the way Chrome and Firefox work, where the top entry in the auto-complete list is filled-out in the address bar, only requiring an Enter to load it. The part which has not yet been typed is shown selected and is overridden as the user types.

I like this feature as well and will implement it at some point in WebPositive.

[diver]

Indeed.

[harvard]

i meant that only what leavengood said.(i.e.more like the way chrome worked)

[pulkomandy]

I personally dislike that feature. Often I type "github.com" and end up on "gist.github.com", for example, because the browser isn't very good at matching URLs with what I type.

Knowing that it's possible to type part of an URL, then use the down key to select the first match in the current list, and that still allows typing an URL you really mean, without the autocomplete messing with it, I'd prefer things to stay as they are.

Should auto-complete be made the default, is there a way to undo it and get to the URL I typed, even if it happens to be a substring of another URL? If there is, I think the discoverability of it is not as good as what we currently have (press down to select the next item in the list is fairly obvious).

[luroh]

Moving Web+ enhancements out of R1 milestone.

[nephele]

I would like to close this.

Personally I am very happy with the way webpositive does it now: offering a list of options and i just switch through or select which one i want. But if i hit enter it does what i said and doesn't do some heuristic stuff. This has bitten me on iOS safari severall times where i enter "de" into the bar, it autocompletes this to "https://dev.haiku-os.org" but on pressing enter it instead searches for the letters de on duckduckgo.

[humdinger]

+1 on keeping the status quo.