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- it makes the system second-guess in more places. Means more complexity - understandingly some bugs to fix (tinyurl.com/http-strip) - the users will alter the
by ay 17y ago
- it makes the system second-guess in more places. Means more complexity - understandingly some bugs to fix (tinyurl.com/http-strip)
- the users will alter their behavior when mentioning the URLs (as I did just above). And will wonder why they are not linkable.
Now either the site owners have to jump through the hoops to replicate the second-guessing logic to their sites, or everyone who views the URL, will have to copy/paste manually.
Another couple of questions I will start asking as a user: why does the ftp:// thing pops up in front of the URL if I use it ? And, what is https:// https:// and why is it suddenly there when I only want to go to gmail.com ?
This change noticeably increases the number of places which violate the principle of least surprise. But maybe I am a corner-case :-)
EDIT:
And, if we look at the whole "address bar" under the same UI angle - the path and the query string is equally a useless technobabble for anyone non-geek. So, I think we would go further and just show the host name, while we are at it.
- moe 17y ago.com is also useless technobabble. We should strip it and only show TLDs other than com.
- ugh 17y ago- the users will alter their behavior when mentioning the URLs (as I did just above). And will wonder why they are not linkable. What?! I know of no one who ever, ever, ever said http:// http:// when mentioning a URL. I certainly don’t do that.
- ay 17y ago#define mention(url) type_or_paste_into_facebook(url) Sorry that my wording was unclear. "referencing in writing elsewhere" might have been a better one.
- krainboltgreene 17y agoPeople have been using "lol, hey, go to www.google.com" for years without problems.
- chaosmachine 17y agoIt's a bit late in the game, but maybe we could adopt a new one-character standard to replace http:// http:// with something shorter, but still easy to parse, like the @name system being made popular by twitter, etc. Some ideas: :news.ycombinator.com $news.ycombinator.com !news.ycombinator.com