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   Danny O'B (danny@mastodon.spesh.com)'s status on Thursday, 16-Apr-2026 05:15:40 JST Danny O'B

   • John Gruber
   • Lisa Melton

   @gruber re: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/04/14/calhoun-lemay -- success (or even just "shipped features") has many parents, but @lisamelton thinks she and Steve Jobs simultaneously came up with the progress bar in the location field trick, not Steve Lemay https://lisamelton.net/2023/10/05/memories-of-steve/#:~:text=In%20the%20page-,address%20field,-!%E2%80%9D

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     John Gruber (gruber@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Apr-2026 05:15:37 JST John Gruber

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     • Lisa Melton

     @lisamelton @danny Such a great essay, just linked it up. Curious though if you have any recollection whether Steve Lemay might have designed that initial progress-bar-in-location-field, based on your and Jobs's idea?

     https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/04/15/melton-jobs

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     Lisa Melton (lisamelton@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Apr-2026 05:15:38 JST Lisa Melton

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     • John Gruber

     @danny @gruber Steve Jobs and I definitely invented the scrollbar-in-the-page-address-field together. My memory is very clear about that.

     Warner Crocker repeated this.