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If see a thing of the form <three letters>.<two letters that aren't a country I know>/<newline><huge number>, it doesn't really occur to me that it's supposed t

If see a thing of the form <three letters>.<two letters that aren't a country I know>/<newline><huge number>, it doesn't really occur to me that it's supposed to be a URL. Doesn't help that in their big example image, the "gt" of gty.im kind of blurs into the bright bit of the image it is laid over. Apart from the pet-peeve of the missing http:// http://, is splitting URLs across lines a thing now?

ceol 14y ago
I dunno. I immediately saw it as a URL, because honestly, what else would it be?
- megablast 14y ago
  I thought it was a product code.
  - justincormack 14y ago
    Any decent product code should be a URL...
  - whatusername 14y ago
    It's both.
Sparragus 14y ago
Getty Images is all over the web. And while initially it might be like you say, I think it will eventually become some sort of branding that people will learn to use.
there 14y ago
http:// http://? What's that? My Firefox and Chrome don't show that.
- mistercow 14y ago
  It's a functional programming thing; stands for "Haskell Time To Party". It might sound funny, but it is very, very serious and esoteric.
- miahi 14y ago
  This week a coworker and I (more than 10 years of admin experience each) spent 15 minutes wondering why one internal web server was not reachable from a specific computer. Turned out that we got so used working with Firefox and Chrome that we forgot IE8 doesn't understand an address like IP:port/ if you don't specify the protocol (http://IP:port/ http://IP:port/).
  - ciupicri 14y ago
    As the Zen of Python says, explicit is better than implicit.
    - lowboy 14y ago
      As my fingers say, thanks for the reduced keystrokes.
powertower 14y ago
The watermark is primarily for the web-developers and web-masters that have not yet paid for a licensed copy of the image and are just marking things up on the page. If you're smart enough to find the image, download it, embed it in your website, you're smart enough to figure out the rest. It's not ment to be used on a production/deployed website to drive traffic to getty. It's just a reminder to you.
bmelton 14y ago
So, as I just learned recently, the <huge number> is their 'Creative ID'. People who use Getty images enough know that they can just track that number and look up images from Getty. So, in a sense, you're right. It is both a URL and a 'product code'.

ceol 14y ago

I dunno. I immediately saw it as a URL, because honestly, what else would it be?

megablast 14y ago
I thought it was a product code.
- justincormack 14y ago
  Any decent product code should be a URL...
- whatusername 14y ago
  It's both.

Sparragus 14y ago

Getty Images is all over the web. And while initially it might be like you say, I think it will eventually become some sort of branding that people will learn to use.

there 14y ago

http:// http://? What's that? My Firefox and Chrome don't show that.

mistercow 14y ago
It's a functional programming thing; stands for "Haskell Time To Party". It might sound funny, but it is very, very serious and esoteric.
miahi 14y ago
This week a coworker and I (more than 10 years of admin experience each) spent 15 minutes wondering why one internal web server was not reachable from a specific computer. Turned out that we got so used working with Firefox and Chrome that we forgot IE8 doesn't understand an address like IP:port/ if you don't specify the protocol (http://IP:port/ http://IP:port/).
- ciupicri 14y ago
  As the Zen of Python says, explicit is better than implicit.
  - lowboy 14y ago
    As my fingers say, thanks for the reduced keystrokes.

powertower 14y ago

The watermark is primarily for the web-developers and web-masters that have not yet paid for a licensed copy of the image and are just marking things up on the page. If you're smart enough to find the image, download it, embed it in your website, you're smart enough to figure out the rest. It's not ment to be used on a production/deployed website to drive traffic to getty. It's just a reminder to you.

bmelton 14y ago

So, as I just learned recently, the <huge number> is their 'Creative ID'. People who use Getty images enough know that they can just track that number and look up images from Getty. So, in a sense, you're right. It is both a URL and a 'product code'.