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Re: Stick in the mud...
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 13 Jun 2000 21:16:29 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> > What makes you think users "forget" or are "lazy" if they don't enter a
> > trailing slash? Do you honestly believe that the majority of users even
> > know they they "should" put in the trailing slash?
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> OK, let's add "unaware" to that list; some users may be unaware that a URL
> is actually /foo/bar/ and perceive it instead as /foo/bar -- especially if
> the URL was printed wrong somewhere, such as a print ad.
I'd go so far as to say the majority of users are "unaware" of this sort of
thing. And it will remain that way, probably forever. Have you seen lots of
print ads floating around that contain trailing slashes?
And sorry if I seemed overly snippy earlier. I'm sick with something that has
me feeling under the house, not just under the weather, and I'm not in the
best of moods.
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| (...) I've seen more without than with, but some of both. But more often than either, I've seen root-level URLs, often without the slash and even without the www prefix. :) (...) Ahhh, it's spring/summer cold season. :) Drink lots of hot chicken (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Stick in the mud...
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| (...) If I recall the spec properly, there *is* a defined special case where (URL) exactly equal to (URL) fact, the first / isn't part of the path part of the URL. (24 years ago, 14-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) What makes you think users "forget" or are "lazy" if they don't enter a trailing slash? Do you honestly believe that the majority of users even know they they "should" put in the trailing slash? (...) You may have the technical slant on your (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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