Makes sense and doesn't. Ideally, you can navigate to the file from a directory and copy the link that is in the address bar, and share a direct link to the file with the context of the directory. And if needed, right-click to share like you did to share that file and that file only, like what it does now.

Yeah that's true.

TBF, having the address bar to dynamically reflect whatever the user currently is seeing on screen is really a relatively "new" idea, so I typically don't expect that. It would be great if they have it, of course.

> TBF, having the address bar to dynamically reflect whatever the user currently is seeing on screen is really a relatively "new" idea, so I typically don't expect that. It would be great if they have it, of course.

"Relatively" and "new" being very... Relative in this case :) I remember writing client-side web applications (SPAs before they were called SPAs) in 2008/2009 where we did this because tying loading resources based on the URL (compared to the opposite of loading a resource then manipulating the URL) was so obvious, wouldn't surprise me if the practice was older than that as well.

In terms of how fast the web moves forward, I'd say it's not very "new", but in terms of anything else, yeah I guess it is relatively new :)

I get what you mean. My point is less about "the technology isn't there" but that dev would not bother unless it's very needed.

People went to a lot of trouble to make this feature of resource location work in the 1990s, but my front end work ended with jQuery so perhaps the idea was lost and now is again being found?