entering a URL - plaintiger

yep, it's just you - in that nobody in their right mind types "http://" into a browser's address field. there hasn't been any reason to, at least not on the Mac, for at least ten years or so now. in a properly designed Mac browser there's no need or reason to type "http://", "www.", or even ".com" (you only have to specify the top-level domain if it's something other than ".com"). if you want to go to, say, http://www.versiontracker.com/, you should be able to simply type "versiontracker" and let the browser fill in the rest, and the very most you should ever have to type is, say, "versiontracker.com." "http://" and "www." are a given, and will be filled in automatically by any correctly written browser.

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Thursday, March 13 2008 @ 03:34 AM PDT

entering a URL - igamogam

Sorry plaintiger but you are being overconfident.

I agree it is pretty daft to use http:// or www anymore since years but sunrise performs a search for me too when I insert - for instance: "versiontracker" without a tld the result is http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=versiontracker

If I insert "versiontracker.com" I get http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=versiontracker.com

Oddly if I use "www.versiontracker.com" guess what I get http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=www.versiontracker.com

The only way to access the site is to insert "http://www.versiontracker.com"

There seems to be no preference to switch off this behaviour.

So basically there is some sort of a bug which makes sunrise perform a search instead of accessing a URL and the autocomplete does not seem to work any more.

Apart from that I like sunrise but it seems to be getting slower, bigger, flakier and less reliable with time, mind you it is easy to whinge, I'm not a developer.

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Monday, January 05 2009 @ 03:32 AM PST