“So, just type in ‘ colondoublebackslashwww.domain.nnn ‘ after the prompt; obviously without including the quotes and stuff”
This is the kind of instruction which tech support geeks give to newbie customers, and which usually results in great frustration at both ends of the phone line.
Today’s invention is a browser plug-in which shows an animated finger moving slowly across a keyboard illustrating exactly the correct sequence of keystrokes and without any possible alternative interpretations.
This would require that an image of a finger was stored hovering over each key and that a realtime image interpolation be constructed of the movement between eg A and B.
(It just occurred to me that a keyboard which could be remotely controlled in player piano mode, the keys being depressed in sequence by internal magnets, as if by some ghostly hand, might also help avoid misunderstandings when illustrating keyboard techniques).
That sounds good on a first look, but can even add to the frustration when the on-screen keyboard doesn’t have the same layout as the physical one.
True…it would need the browser to be made aware of the keyboard design identifier.