Chrome is by far my preferred browser these days. I have practically stopped using other browsers unless my job requires me to do so.
I have many reasons for preferring Chrome. The main one being, that Chrome simply seems to be faster loading and more responsive than any others browser out there.
Today Mashable reports that the Chrome developers are about to remove the annoying "hhtp.//" from the URL-field in the browser:
When you see some text prefixed by “Http://”, you automatically assume that what follows is a web address, as defined by the Hypertext Transfer Protocol. The question is, since most web addresses are easily recognizable anyway, do you really need it? The developers of Google Chrome don’t think you do, so they simply chose to hide it in a developer version of Chrome.
It would appear that the solution is a bit tricky to carry out in real life. But I like the sentiment behind it: Namely that web browsing should be as user friendly an activity as possible. No geeks required for that ;-)
What annoys me about this story is that it portrays the web as a place where scamming has run amok. Yes of course there is scamming going on. But the case story is actually not about a web scam, is it? Making a guy pay money in advance to a seller he doesn't know for goods he hasn't received, is a scam that has probably been around a little longer than the web :-).
A: I would have skipped on the double slash - there's no need for it. Also I would have put the domain name in the reverse order - in order of size so, for example, the BCS address would read: http:uk/org/bcs/members [...]«