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Sure, people will almost definitely not call them "moz-colon-forward-slash-forwadslash-a", but I could easily see a lot of people shortening the whole thing to
by Jordrok 10y ago
Sure, people will almost definitely not call them "moz-colon-forward-slash-forwadslash-a", but I could easily see a lot of people shortening the whole thing to just Moz. The :// in a url acts as a separator, so the important bits are whatever come before and after it. All there is after it is an "a" which isn't very informative, so my eyes are drawn to "moz" instead. Which isn't ideal because a company named Moz already exists and has no connection to Mozilla whatsoever.
Maybe less technical people who aren't used to seeing full urls won't have the same reaction, but in that case you've still got a problem because they probably won't already know who Mozilla is and it's kind of a leap to go from Moz://a to Mozilla without already knowing the name.
- adam12 10y agoIt took me until your post to see that : = i and // = ll. I've known the Mozilla name for years. I guess I'm just too accustomed to seeing http:// http://. edit: Maybe other people see haiti's pill.
- jaclaz 10y agoI am definitely old school, but if this (IMHO senseless) idea of reading "://" as "ill" would go on, a few sites might be read "the wrong way", as an example ;) silly combinator: https://ycombinator.com https://ycombinator.com and silly ahoo.com: https://yahoo.com https://yahoo.com No, wait, the latter one doesn't sound too bad...