I wonder what Coach McGirk would have to say on this issue…
Shut up, Brendan. No, look, I don’t care. Just shut up.
dub-dub-dub is dead. Long live dub-dub-dub!!
Anyone who types the http:// is weird
I always have to put http:// in when I’m using a machine at school, and attempting to reach an IP address. If I don’t it tells me the resource isn’t allowed…
apache modrewrite is your friend.
One wonders if the writers of “Home Movies” intentionally put the whole www debate into episode #404, or if that’s just one of those happy, happy accidents.
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It’s not clear to me why typing "xyzbank" into the Google box is more reliable than typeing "xyzbank.com" into the URL box. Yes, if I mistype it in the URL box I may end up at some scam site that will try to trick me into giving them account info. But … isn’t that also quite possible if I mistype it in the Google box? I don’t know Google’s algorithms, but surely there’s no guarantee that the site I really wanted will come up first even if I mistyped the search. I can’t imagine how they’d guarantee that. And if the scam site goes out of its way to look like the real site, surely they can also make their Google result look like the real site.
RE dropping the dot-com: Umm, doesn’t that rather defeat the purpose of having multiple TLDs? Yes, it seems many people are unaware that there are any TLDs other than dot-com. One of my web sites is johansens.us, and I’ve had many many times that I tell someone the URL, and they repeat it back to me as johansens.us.com.
I think an unfortunate development is that organizations are routinely grabbing up multiple TLDs with the same “base name”. I mean, somebody wants to create a web site for Fluffy Bunny Company so they get not just fluffybunny.com but also fluffybunny.net, fluffybunny.org, fluffybunny.info, and maybe even fluffybunny.uk and fluffybunny.fr, etc. What’s the point of even having TLDs if we are rapidly approaching the point where no matter what the TLD, they all map to the same site anyway?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe they’ve made quite the handsome profit along the way, too.
Apple gets 29 from each song AND pays 100% of all the developing and operating costs of the iTMS. It’s not like they get most of the dollar.
If there is profit, its from quantity sold not outrageous margins. Quantity equals demand and popularity.
IMO, all but trivial sites should use the ‘www’. If you expect or hope your domain will one day need to scale beyond that cheap $5/mo shared hosting service, it may be a good idea.
See http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#cookie_free
If you wind up needing to use a CDN or caching service, you may be stuck needing a new domain, like yimg.com or images-amazon.com. Even though I understand a good bit about the “how’s” and “why’s” web sites work the way they do, I can’t help but do a double-take when I see URLs from paypalobjects.com loading in my status bar. I suggest that if you’re taking personal information or selling stuff online, use the ‘www’. Otherwise you run the risk of confusing your users or making them even more susceptible to phishing attacks.
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My school’s CS department is similarily ridiculous:
http://cs.concordia.ca does not work while http://www.cs.concordia.ca does.
Also, after a redesign in the last year, the new site is a http://www.cse.concordia.ca. http://cse.concordia.ca still doesn’t work.
Do people not learn?
It is like the joke:
A man goes to the the fast food and orders 99 burgers. So the guy at the counter asks: Shall i make it a hundred to round it up?
The man responds: Nah… Who’s gonna eat a hundred burgers?
I remember way back when there was a small group of websters who tried to change the convention from ‘www’ to ‘web’, as in
http://web.example.com. I wish that had taken hold.
Actually, that part of the convention should have been part of the protocol specifier, ie
web://codinghorror.com
Oh, and BTW, since hitting a non-local resource is the default thing users want to do, the / should have indicated a local resource, and the plain colon a non-local resource, ie:
web:codinghorror.com
Oh well. Too late the change now. CERN and their stupid geeks who think Ache Tee Tee Pee Colon Forward Slash Forward Slash is intuitive.
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is it only in the UK that the school bikesheds are used for amorous encounters?
no mention of Tim Berners-Lee’s regret that they didn’t reverse the order of the domain name? Sun did do it for Java though.
e.g. http://com.codinghorror.www/blog/archives/001109.html
the top level of the domain and the file name are now both on the left, though I think it would be even more clumsy to say it like that. Then again it might have either killed off the ‘www’ or encouraged ‘.web’
@Rob: then why have a search box AND and an address box?
Plug for Opera: in the address bar type g search terms.
FireFox 3 will also search from the address bar.
I’m on the Chrome dev branch and it totally truncates the “http://” out of the address bar. I think this one is a no-brainer since the primary purpose of a browser is to view Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), so the default protocol SHOULD be the Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (http).
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