- From: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:15:50 +0200
On 12 Jul 2009, at 10:46, Bruce Lawson wrote: > The eleventy squillion WordPress sites out there that allow comments > ask for your web page address as well as name and email. The method > of entering a URL does not require the http:// prefix; just > beginning the URL with www is accepted. > > As it's very common for people to drop the http:// prefix on > advertising, business cards etc (and who amongst us reads out the > prefix when reading a URL on the phone?) I'd like to suggest that > input type="url" allows the http:// prefix to be optional on input > and, if ommitted, be assumed when parsing. How do we tell apart "foo.html" (a relative URL) and "example.com" (a host name)? -- Geoffrey Sneddon <http://gsnedders.com/>
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