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Author: | timark_uk [ Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:21 am ] | |||||||||
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Mark |
Author: | Fogmeister [ Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:31 am ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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I rarely ever type in the www anymore anyway. Safari and FF will fill them in for you if required (and I believe there is some other power at work that can resolve google.com into www.google.com for instance). They are a bit annoying at work though having to browse to various servers using "\\servername\c$\..." although I'm not sure if that has come from the use of the // on the internet or if the internet uses it because it was already used in local networking?! |
Author: | timark_uk [ Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:35 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Web creator 'sorry for slashes' |
Apparently DOS used back-slashes before the World Wide Web popularised the forward slash. Mark |
Author: | EddArmitage [ Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:43 am ] | |||||||||
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Backslashes are annoying! Silly M$! Personally I have no problem with the //. Using a colon by itself would lead to confusion by having the seperator between protocol and address and address and port the same. I guess another character could have been used, perhaps.Using a single slash doesn't provide enough distinction between the protocol-address seperator and the slashes found in the file paths, imho. Meh. The referenced article is herehttp://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6872873.ece. |
Author: | AlunD [ Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:46 am ] | |||||||||
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LOL it sure does ![]() |
Author: | timark_uk [ Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:47 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Web creator 'sorry for slashes' |
I disagree, Edd. Your argument may stand up in a programming environment, but as part of the web address system the whole protocol-address seperator doesn't really need to be the double slashes. Mark |
Author: | JJW009 [ Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:06 am ] | |||||||||
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I remember hearing him in interview many years ago saying much the same thing.
We do need some kind protocol indicator and separator, unless you want your browser to fail with everything except http? I really can't think of a better arrangement, and it's probably the exact same method any other post-Unix computer dude would have thought of first. I wonder what the very earliest example of protocol://location/object is? It's not like anyone actually has to type them, so I really don't see the problem. As said before, all modern browsers will put them in for you. Heck, most browsers will find this website if you just type X404 as the address with no further qualification. |
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