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> prepend // Then the technical people think it's a comment, not a web address. Maybe :// would be better? Wait, that looks like some weird emoticon... I li

by csense 13y ago

> prepend // Then the technical people think it's a comment, not a web address. Maybe :// would be better? Wait, that looks like some weird emoticon... I like http:// http:// because it's precise. EDIT: Wow, HN highlights that as a link. It goes to about:blank (on my browser at least).

286c8cb04bda 13y ago
> Then the technical people think it's a comment, not a web address. They would be wrong. URLs beginning with // are scheme-relative -- http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-url-20120524/#resolve-a-string-as-a-scheme-relative-url http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-url-20120524/#resolve-a-string-...
- dragonwriter 13y ago
  Which actually makes it a worse substitute for http:// http:// for a combined technical/non-technical audience that something merely potentially confusable with a comment by a technical audience.
- MichaelGG 13y ago
  If it's a URI. The issue here is there's no context to determine what it is, so the rules for parsing a URI aren't involved.
aaronbrethorst 13y ago
> :// would be better? Wait, that looks like some weird emoticon... I would like to nominate the name "confused duck" for this emoticon.