Timeline for Best UI to allow expert users to enter an ip address? (IPv4)
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| Jan 27, 2013 at 8:22 | comment | added | Relaxing In Cyprus | We're not talking about IPv6 though. Personally I don't have a problem switching from decimal to binary on the fly. I guess its down to having to do 8 bit graphics as a kid where you had to convert all the time. Now I instantly see the number as a row of dots. Anyway, I was genuinely curious as to why anybody would want hex input for ipv4 addresses. I did some searching on google and could only find examples pertaining to Java. All the c++ libraries I looked at used quad notation. My research wasn't extensive though! | |
| Jan 27, 2013 at 5:17 | comment | added | Keith | @FacebookAnswers When the dotted-quad notation was first used subjects were classfull, and were divided on octet boundaries. Now with VLSM that's less useful, and I would argue even more confusing. Hence, IPv6 uses hex notation normally. | |
| Jan 27, 2013 at 1:01 | comment | added | Relaxing In Cyprus | Indeed, after all, there is a very good reason why they are represented as 4 separate numbers; it makes it easier to identity which is the network part of the address, and it makes subnetting easier to describe. I guess if you are using it just for an isolated address, then the hex notation would make sense, but for more general networking, it would be horrible. | |
| Jan 27, 2013 at 0:23 | comment | added | Brian | As for decimal representation, that is usually the format I see within data (SQL tables, CSV files, etc.) | |
| Jan 26, 2013 at 12:26 | comment | added | Marcks Thomas | @FacebookAnswers: Really? They're quite common. An IPv4 address expressed in hex is always eight digits in length and does not require seperators. There is plenty of software using this notation to represent IPs internally. | |
| Jan 26, 2013 at 10:42 | comment | added | Relaxing In Cyprus | In all my years in the I.T industry I have never, ever, seen an IPv4 ip address expressed in hex. | |
| Jan 26, 2013 at 9:37 | history | edited | Keith | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 26, 2013 at 9:08 | comment | added | Keith | @JonW Because I can type it in more naturally. I really hate those 4-box monstrosities. | |
| Jan 26, 2013 at 8:07 | comment | added | JonW♦ | Why do you say option 3? | |
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| Jan 26, 2013 at 4:35 | history | answered | Keith | CC BY-SA 3.0 |