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Re:It’s time to place the web in safer hands by DanBC on Thursday January 12, 2012 @06:43AM (#3455967)
I think it's worse in US; over here (UK) people are more used to .co.uk or .org or whatnot.

People don't really know what an URL is. During ealry days of WWW and broadcasting presenters would read the whole thing; aitch tee tee pee colon forward slash forward slash double you double you double you etc etc. There's still not much awareness of what the bits of an url breakdown to; you still see even the BBC make mistakes about domain names and TLDs.

And I'm always gently disappointed to see URLs delimited by () and not RFC compliant <>.

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Re:It’s time to place the web in safer hands by lurker17 on Thursday January 12, 2012 @07:20PM (#3458587)
> And I'm always gently disappointed to see URLs delimited by () and not RFC compliant <>.

Choosing a bracket character that resembles a tag, for use in the case when you are definitively trying NOT to create an HTML tag, seems a misguided choice in the RFC.

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