Common Practice vs Standards (was: Re: [thelist] www prefix is it necessary?)
Shawn K. Quinn
skquinn at speakeasy.net
Mon Jan 24 22:11:46 CST 2005
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 14:52 +1100, Michael Pemberton wrote:
> This raises an interesting issue. Should the shorthand become the norm?
>
> I have found the IE starts to remove the trailing '/' on urls that are
> stored in the histroy ("http://www.sitename.com/" becomes
> "http://www.sitename.com"). This, along with other people following the
> same pattern, has resulted in more users making this a habit.
In this instance, and only this instance, there's no difference between
the two URLs. With any path component in the mix, however, they are
different with and without the slash.
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Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn at speakeasy.net>
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