While much of the work that you do in your browser may involve using a mouse or trackball, typing in your browser gives you control over one area in particular:The Location Field.
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While much of the work that you do in your browser may involve using a mouse or trackball, typing in your browser gives you control over one area in particular: The Location Field. |
While clicking on a link may the most common way to get to a website, you shouldn't forget that you can also type locations into your browser's location field, thereby facilitating navigation in many ways. This is particularly true when you know the web address or URL. But even if you don't, knowing a company name may be enough for you to `guess' the URL, which may be something like www.dell.com, www.netcom.net, or www.pbs.org (NB: sometimes the `www.' is not present).
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Even if you got to a web page by clicking on a link in another page, it still can be useful to be able to type into the location field. For instance, if you arrive at a page, you may be able to get to the originating page by deleting some of the address, leaving only the part that looks like a homepage address. Pages which have search engines often use a kind of script that is visible in the location field, and this allows new searches to be conducted by simply editing the script (once you figure it out).
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