Does anybody actually type in "www." when typing something into the address bar? I sure as hell don't. Is there even a point to it?
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Does anybody actually type in "www." when typing something into the address bar? I sure as hell don't. Is there even a point to it?
I still continue to do so, though it's largely out of habit than actual neccessity.
Good question!
I think the answer is generally no. I rarely bother nowadays. It used to be a habit to do it for every website, but unless I got them book-marked, I don't type it in at all. I don't think any website requires you to do so anymore (At least, with the browser I use, Firefox, i don't need to).
If Ive been tehre before/recently I just use the thing in the adress bar where you type a letter and it gives you a list of sites youve been to that start with that, otherwise I may or maynot, depends on how long the URL is =P
I do it out of habit
No, obviously because it's not needed to get to wherever you're going. Fast-paced world I tell ya.
I also do it out of habit. I'm not bothered by it.
Yeah, I don't type in "www." I don't even type in the address bar. I have every site I visit bookmarked and in a specific order.
i do.
You don't need to?
I do. It bugs me to have go to a website and not type it out all proper like.
I agree with the above post. I need to do it that way or it just feels odd.
Clearly, anyone who doesn't is a lazy ne'er-do-well who likes nothing more than contributing to the downfall of civilization.
On my old computer you HAD to, or it didn't know what the hell you were talking about. Most of the stuff I need to access is on the firefox thingie below the address bar though, so need for typing anything at all.
i only use the internet for forums.eyesonff.com so i dont need to put www.
I have bookmarked anything that I go to, often.
I usually find other sites by using google, and because I usually leave an EoFF window open, I open a new window to search google, and the Firefox start is google.
Therefore, I barely ever use the address bar.
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Originally Posted by Tasura
it depends on the site, I believe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Del Murder
Does 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
I do it, it just doesn't feel right otherwise...
That'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
I type the www. out of habit, unless the page URL doesn't have www. in the beginning (many pages in my university's network don't have a www. in their address). I also use the address/navigation bar a lot. When I type the first few letters of the address, it gives me the list of addresses I've visited before.
This is again out of habit, but when I go to EoFF forums, if they aren't bookmarked (e.g. when I'm using other computers), I type the old address www.eyesonff.com/forums , which gets me redirected to the forum main page.Quote:
Originally Posted by Psydekick
Ehm, I do... But it's probably just an old habit - plus I think there are actually some sites that you can't visit without typing the www's?
But the internet doesn't work without www!
someone stole my w key
Yes. Actually, I always ritually type:
"http://www.*site name :D*.com/"
Most of the time I still do.
How spiffingly random.
I don't. I'm too lazy. All the websites I usually go to are on the bar thing. Kind of like bookmarking, but I'm using firefox, so they're right there and all I do is click. *click*
I used to, until my friend showed me you didn't have to.
I type it sometimes by habit.
Sometimes I do.
Sometimes I even put in the http:// prefix too. :excited:
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.
Yes. Force of habit.
Yes. I have to have the http:// in there too. It has to be perfection.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xaven
Everytime I try to go to a website, I type "ww" and IT NEVER COMES UP. :(
i dont do it either. i think www. may be neccasary for some websites but im not sure. i dont understand why people did it in the first place. its saves time if you dont do it.
Never any more but some sites actually don't configure their site to work without www (Like bipper explained I think) so then I'm like grr. On our server at work when we set up sites we have to add two headers, one with www, and one without, if you don't it won't work without. Doh. When I do try and type www I end up typing ww or wwww. x_x
I do most of the time, just out of habit.
There's some site I go to quite often that requires it ... I can't remember which one though :pQuote:
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
I tend to type it out, not because I find it needed, just out of habit.
I hope out the whole thing, every time. I can type "http://www." in a fraction of a second.
No. I got used to http:// though for some reason.
Nerd :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Necronopticous
Having said that, I can also type incredibly fast. I don't get bullied...I don't get bullied...I don't...I don't....
I do it out of familiarity rather than necessity.
i always type it
Nah. :cat:
I used to always do it until a few months ago, when I discovered that it could be done without. So yeah, I'm slowly getting the www out of my system. I have relapses often, though, and they aggravate me more than they should. It's silly.
Most sites I go to are bookmarked, so I do not need to type anything. But when I do, I usually do not bother in doing so. Though I noticed when I tried to use IE for my university website, I had to type in: "http://www." which I do not have to do in Firefox.
Typing out http:// is useless since it's the default internet protocol that almost all websites are on. Denoting www is mostly useless since by default Apache redirects www requests to the public_html folder.
sometimes its required.
;)
No, unless I want to go to
www.com