The importance of “http://”

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Re: The importance of “http://”

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Post by GHFigs » Sun, Apr 18, 2010, 7:15 PM UTC

pavlov wrote: post #25

nhebb wrote: post #12

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They still do that. One of the first things I do on a new Windows system is to turn that "feature" off.

To be fair, Mac OS X does the same by default.

An important difference is that you can still change the extension. Suppose you have a file called "foo.zip" and wish to change it to "foo.cbz"

On Windows, renaming the file makes appears to work, and the interface will indeed show "foo.cbz". But what it actually does is rename the file "foo.cbz.zip". The actual extension remains entirely hidden and untouchable as long as the global option to hide extensions is turned on.

On the Mac, changing the name to "foo.cbz" will prompt a warning that you might cause the file to open in a different application, and IIRC presents the options of naming it "foo.cbz.zip" or "foo.cbz".

Neither approach is perfect, but I think what this illustrates is the difference between walling off complexity and just hiding it. We see the same difference with Chrome, as hiding http:// is just visual, but the altered way of copying URLs to the clipboard is actually blocking the user's access to that complexity.

Re: The importance of “http://”

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Post by arantius » Mon, Apr 19, 2010, 2:46 AM UTC

ay wrote: post #6

moe wrote: post #5

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I did and it doesn't . On OSX. When pasting into adium. It seems to work when pasting into a terminal. Haven't tried other apps, yet. And yes, that's a big problem. I don't want to double-check my urls when pasting them into various messengers, skype or whatever. Here's a tip google: If you can't implement it 200% reliable then don't f-ck with something as essential as URL copy/paste. People will not be amused at all…

Check if your behaviour matches one of these: code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/list?q=label:HTTPStripping and file a new one if not. EDIT: I am intentionally not including the " http:// since: * after looking at it in the omnibox, I decide I like it better this way indeed, and 6 less keystrokes. The others will have to copypaste or the webapp writers will have to figure a way to highlight it :-) * the copypaste is n…

> EDIT: I am intentionally not including the "http:// since:

And I am intentionally not clicking the link because ... it's not a link. I have a greasemonkey script that automatically turns plain text URLs into clickable links. But the text in your post is not a URL. It's a domain and a path, but with no scheme it is not a URL.

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