Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL

Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by Spivak on Thursday September 06, 2018 @05:46PM (#17929864)

I really don't know why you consider that a bad thing. It's a little bit silly that users have to know or care about what a domain/url is. Like if a user is just trying to get to, say, CNN, can they not just type in CNN and have the browser do the rest. Why put additional barriers?

Would we really design this system today?

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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by daveFNbuck on Thursday September 06, 2018 @05:56PM (#17929972)

We basically have the system you describe. I type CNN and the browser brings up a page of things that match my query. The first one is CNN. If I visit CNN a lot, my new tab page will have a thumbnail of the CNN website and I end up with an even simpler UI of just clicking a picture.

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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by hobs on Thursday September 06, 2018 @05:53PM (#17929940)

Because you need sufficient complexity to design a system where users can make things you dont bake into the system.

Would we have the web if we would design it today?

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