I always thought it was odd when they go with the whole "http://www." voodoo ritual, but then they skip the final slash after the domain.

AFAIK the lack of a path part is allowed in an HTTP URL per RFC2616.

       http_URL = "http:" "//" host [ ":" port ] [ abs_path [ "?" query ]]

> If the abs_path is not present in the URL, it MUST be given as "/" when used as a Request-URI for a resource (section 5.1.2).

Browsers may differ on whether they auto-fix schemaless URIs, but they're all required to fix path-less URIs. So it's much "safer" to use them.

Or even worse, "h-t-t-p-colon-backslash-backslash..." from people who were used to saying "c-colon-backslash"

Or worse yet still "forward slash forward slash."

How is forward slash worse? At least that's the correct direction.

Because it's a made up term. It's just called "slash."

More like: solidus and reverse solidus!

At least it unambiguously refers to the correct character / as opposed the incorrect character \

Or worse yet, "h-t-t-p colon reverse-backslash reverse-backslash..."

its awesome that URL's can have different protocols. althoug most user/apps will asume http#/www

I heard https mentioned in a spoken url on the radio recently. And they said "that's with secure encryption"