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It's often mentioned that open source has '1000 eyes' to correct and improve things. The web has many more than that, I'm sure he can be forgiven for not antic
by ricardo81 6y ago
It's often mentioned that open source has '1000 eyes' to correct and improve things.
The web has many more than that, I'm sure he can be forgiven for not anticipating every scrutiny about URIs/HTTP/HTML.
Seems like a small nitpick, sites that don't optimise their images or compress text content over the wire puts the space savings from no // into the shade
- owl57 6y agoNote that space in the sense of bytes is not mentioned in the article. Only user-visible things such as space on paper.
- goto11 6y agoI don't think size over the wire is the concern. The annoyance is URL's in print or read aloud and typed manually. Browsers have since alleviated this by adding "http://" http://" automatically when you type a domain name.
- ricardo81 6y agoFair point, especially about the browser. Could be argued that mainstream browser's behaviour is what translated to how people offline communicated URLs. If they assumed http for a URL that was without protocol, then perhaps less people would've felt the need to include the protocol on paper.