URLs don't work without explicit "http://www."

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New Age Browser Utopia

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URLs don't work without explicit "http://www." #3

Closed morgane closed 6 years ago

morgane commented 6 years ago

Typing in wikipedia.org won't do anything; I need the full URL (http://www.wikipedia.org). This is tedious to have to include.

nickbytes commented 6 years ago

Yea def need to do this.

What do you think about this flow:

type in something to the search bar
we validate if this is a url
if its a url, parse the page and show it
if not a url, search on wikipedia

Maybe getting a little ahead of ourselves though, bc then would need to handle if theres no results on wikipedia

morgane commented 6 years ago

I like that flow, and I like having Wikipedia as a default.

if theres no results on wikipedia

Whether we search on Wikipedia or not, we still need an error state. I think a simple screen that's like "Oops! Couldn't find what you were looking for. Try again? [hints]" would be enough