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While I would love for the simple idea of the URL scheme to be something everyone understands, I highly doubt it's every going to happen. I'm sad about this, bu
by edanm 13y ago
While I would love for the simple idea of the URL scheme to be something everyone understands, I highly doubt it's every going to happen. I'm sad about this, but I live in the real world with real people, and I've seen the kind of stuff they do and don't learn, whether by ability or by inclination.
- altcognito 13y agoWhat's sad is that we've had URL schemes for 20 years and they aren't taught in school. Also sad is many people think we teaching algebra and calculus secondary education is a given but basic concepts like domain names in a URL are "too complicated" for the real world.
- edanm 13y agoI get where you're coming from, and I'm not sure whether I agree or not. Personally, I think modern education is wrong-headed time most of the time, but I'm not sure I'd switch to teaching URL schemes if I was overlord of the universe. I'd much more likely insist on teaching the basics of economics, finance, logic, rationality, human psychology, etc. URLs would still be far down my list.
- dlisboa 13y agoBasic URLs take literally a single day to teach. The people you're teaching them to already have more contact to them than almost anyone else. Schools already have computer classes (or should have anyway). Then you want to teach them basic finance so they can't throw away their money, except on a phishing attack? We should make users more powerful, not take away everything that can hurt them like hiding pointy triangles from kids.
- jiggy2011 13y agoYou might not be giving people enough credit, people without CS degrees have been using URLs in emails and forum posts to link to information for years.