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what's the benefit of excluding the http:? I'd never seen that prior to a few years ago when the jQuery links started doing it.

• hesselink 13y ago
  It's a protocol relative link. So if the page is served over http, it'll be an http link, and if the page is served over https, it'll be an https link. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_relative_URL#Protocol-relative_URLs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_relative_URL#Protocol-...
  • bigiain 13y ago
    And it breaks unexpectedly (and sometimes hilariously) when people use it in html email, it turns into a file:// "link".
    • cbr 13y ago
      You can't have external css or js in an html email. [1] Are you talking about links? Or image tags? [1] Well you can, but no one will fetch them.
• dagga 13y ago
  browser chooses http or https for you. Same as current page was requested.
• zeograd 13y ago
  it will reuse the protocol of the current page, think http or https or spdy or whatever comes in the future.
• daveid 13y ago
  The browser will load the resource from whatever protocol the current page is loaded from. So if the page is on https, the URL will be accessed as https, otherwise as http.
• thefreeman 13y ago
  dagga, FYI, you are hellbanned. I am not sure why, your comments look reasonable. I would email a staff member or create a new account.