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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
by adamclayman 14y ago
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?
- adamclayman 14y agoAnd should we? Do you see merit to supporting all three //news.ycombinator.com, news.ycombinator.com and http://news.ycombinator.com 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:// http://.