I usually type www. The question should be, "Does anyone type http://?" Now that's what I usually skip when typing out an address.
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I usually type www. The question should be, "Does anyone type http://?" Now that's what I usually skip when typing out an address.
I don't remember the last time I ever typed www. :p
Does the :D at the end get you a lot of 404's?Quote:
Originally Posted by Xaven
I type out the w's seeing as a few of the sites I deal with have subdomains, so I type those out; so the w's just make sense to me.
rarely, i jus go *puts in site name* then i hit the Ctrl and enter and it does it for me
all the time. every single time when i don't have my stuff bookmarked.
nope.
some addresses for some reason don't work for me unless i type the "www." so usualy not but if it doesn't work then yes i do. :D
www is sometimes necessary, depending on whether the site owner has enabled a little option to make it so.
Generally I just type something that will get me close enough, and rely on firefox's inbuilt google search to bring up something appropriate. That, or type the first few letters and let drop down autocomplete finish the job for me.
Out of habit, unless it's been bookmarked.
A lot of university websites require the "www." and I would imagine government sites do as well.
My 20 year-old roommate asked me why I typed the "http://" once while he was in my room. He told me he had never noticed it before and had certainly never typed it.
O_o
To answer the question though, I typed www. every time and http:// every time.
I ignore not typing "www" only on special occasion. Why I type "www"? Dunno.
no i don't i usually just type i nwhat i want in the search engine even though its not hte fastest way.
Depends on how the web server is set up. Most cool site use apache, which by default hadles root hits and throws a user into the www directory with out any need not to. Sites that do not, irk me. Unless of course they do something else with root dir.Quote:
Originally Posted by Del SnizzThat's simply because most sites these days are weak and care nothing for the public virtue.Quote:
Originally Posted by nik0tineDoes it really? I've never actually encountered a site that made me do it.Quote:
Originally Posted by eestlincit depends on the site, I believe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Del Murder
Apache did have a huge control over the ammount of webservers, until micro$cuk horribly cheated and payed GoDaddy to park all its parked domains on an IIS box, boosting microsofts IIS web presence dramatically. Feel the HATE! (Parked domain being one that is bought, and just not in use.)
I think IIS by default does not approve of such lazyness as forgetting the leading www. reference; though I have not used it it _years_ so I am prolly wrong by now. I should hope so.
Bipper
Indeed I do! And it's purely out of habbit. I remember when my sister was trying to impress me with a "magic trick". She said she could get a website to load without typing WWW. I didn't believe her. When I saw her do it, I was in total awe! O_O
It's stupid to do so.