It's annoying when Slashdot is the only feed that I read that actively strips out its links from the feed. So, when I want to see something referenced in a story, I need to open the Slashdot post in my browser, wait until I have a Wi-Fi connection, re-read the story to refresh my memory, find the right link, click on it, and finally see what I wanted to see (assuming I'm not on the subway and haven't lost the connection by the time I've clicked on the link).

The user experience would be far more humane if I could just click on the link directly from my feed reader. I might actually be inclined to comment more when I don't have to waste so much time just to find a link.

I'm the author of the guest blog post. I have some clarifications that should clear things up a lot.

First, I'm just a member of the large community of Firefox users. I do not work for Mozilla (though that would be awesome), and I do not speak for Mozilla. As far as I know, no one within Mozilla is working on implementing any of my ideas at the moment. I simply had a concept and was offered the amazing opportunity to write some guest blog posts. The linked post is Part 1. Part 2 is coming.

Second, contrary to the article summary and to the many comments from people who clearly did not read the post, I am not proposing to hide the location. The location will be completely visible at the top of each page, with even more information. As far as I can tell, there is nothing that the location bar can do that is not possible in my concept.

Finally, the arguments behind each step are available in much more detail on the Mozilla Wiki. That should answer many questions.

if you want to contribute to the discussion in a substantive manner, please first read the article and then go to the discussion page. I've already responded to a number of excellent comments there. Also, if anyone is interested in helping me implement some of these ideas, please let me know!

David