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www.google.com [a ton of spaces that HN won’t let me type] jknotgoogle.com
by teeray 4y ago
www.google.com [a ton of spaces that HN won’t let me type] jknotgoogle.com
- mc32 4y agoI just want a single contiguous space character so I don't have to suppress the space or substitute with an alternate character --also URL boxes can make it conspicuously obvious for better UI. And while they're at it, allow & (ampersand).
- andrewxhonson 4y agoMaybe the location bar should accept the space but strip it? That would work for input if not reading the URL. Maybe only allowing single consecutive spaces to avoid the address spoofing example. I could go for that. I would love & natively though. For my wedding (bride&groom.com for example) I looked into faking it with punycode but nothing was close enough, and anything other than an ampersand would have been too hard to input.
- armchairhacker 4y agogood think hyperlinks are typically underlined so there will be a large training line at the end
- astine 4y agoUnless someone turns off the underlining with a stylesheet.
- thatguy0900 4y agoGoogle search urls are typically long enough that they are shortened by ... At least on mobile
- notamy 4y agoDomain registration already has a lot of rules around length, what characters can be where in the domain name (ex. no hyphens as the very first/last characters), ... I'm sure it'd be trivial to have a "no-repeating-spaces" rule or similar.
- karatinversion 4y agogoogle.com [spaces] pwned.evilcorp.com it is