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Re:BATTLE: //url.tld VS http://url.tld by adamclayman on Thursday April 19, 2012 @10:21PM (#3866236)
If you're reading a dense paragraph of text,and you come across a google.com link, your eye does not immediately recognize it as a link. But if you're reading a paragraph and you see a //google.com link... well now, that's a link!

Everything that's new and not normalized with a smiling, attractive face beside it gets written up as weird, until it gets normalized and becomes commonplace.

I'm asking HN: Can we collectively make this "//link.com" syntax not weird?

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Re:BATTLE: //url.tld VS http://url.tld by adamclayman on Thursday April 19, 2012 @10:25PM (#3866249)
And should we?

Do you see merit to supporting all three //news.ycombinator.com, news.ycombinator.com and http://news.ycombinator.com on your site as likely hyperlinks?

Consider all the variations of capitalization in the coding community, typified by support for CamelCase, and its variants.

I'm suggesting a mixed-mode url format that distinguishes a url from surrounding text, but without the overhead of http://.

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