[gui-talk] The address bar:

[Joel Deutsch]

Albert,

when I read Steve's response, below, I thought it was true and obvious. I 
wondered what the problem had been, so to speak. So I arrowed below to your 
own message, which I'd overlooked earlier, to see what you'd asked. And I 
notice that you asked if the address tool bar is worthwhile keeping 
onscreen. Now, maybe I don't understand the terminology properly, but I've 
always thought the address bar, which is what Steve's talking about, and the 
tool bar were two entirely different things, though I'm pretty sure one's 
right above the other in Internet Explorer. Did you really mean what's the 
use of keeping the address bar? Because Steve's right and all I'd say to 
confirm that is suggest you get rid of it in one way or the other (you can 
do this with some setting, probably in the view menu, but you can also do it 
by having IE display in full screen mode, which is F11 or something like 
that. It's also on the View menu, I think. You'd quickly see in that case 
that not only is the address bar gone, but you won't even have menus 
anymore. That's a pretty radical deprivation, of course. but either way, 
you'd soon see that the address bar itself is good to be there, and I can't 
imagine what I'd do without it. I use it constantly.

But if what you really mean is the tool bar, I guess there are ways to 
accomplish a number of the tool bar functions without using it, although I'm 
not sure if the windows or Jaws key commands for those functions all still 
work if you get rid of the tool bar. But the point is, these are two 
different things. Or am I crazy? I don't know. I just had a weird time at my 
local precinct polling  place trying to use the little blind gizmo. But 
that's another story.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Jacobson" <steve.jacobson at visi.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 7:57 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] The address bar:


Displaying the address bar is obviously a matter of personal choice, but I 
find it to be handy for the following reasons.  It is a convenient way to 
copy the address to be
pasted into something such as when one wants to provide the address of a web 
page in an e-mail.  It can be handy if you typed in the wrong address 
because you can
use it to edit what you typed without re-entering it.  It provides a 
convenient way to examine an address character by character if one is 
wondering if one is at the site
they think they are.  For example, if one gets to an advertising site 
because of a typo, one can look closely to hopefully avoid making the same 
mistake again.

In most cases, there are other ways to do some of the above, but with the 
address bar there, I don't have to remember various alternatives.

On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:44:42 -0400, albert griffith wrote:

>Is it necessary to display the address tool bar?  I always have out of 
>habit
>but I'm now wondering of what real use it is.  thanks
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