Please note: this article used to talk about removing ".com" from URLs.
It doesn't any more. Thanks for your feedback. That was a bit silly.
The reson I removed it is because it's easier to parse a domain with a TLD.
It's unfortunate, but elliottkember.com/madness is easier to parse with code
than elliottkember/madness.
Why are we always using http:// in our URLs?
They're old-fashioned and unnecessary.
Can't browsers just show elliottkember.com
instead of http://www.elliottkember.com/ ?
It would be a lot easier to read.
They can stay. All the other protocols can stay.
It's just that http:// is the default
so why does the browser fill it in when you type an address?
The iPhone browser doesn't show it, for example.
Because elliottkember.com/spreadtweet is easier to read and type
than http://www.elliottkember.com/spreadtweet.html is.
Not only that - https doesn't really say secure very clearly.
Maybe we should have Secure: elliottkember.com/payment
instead of https://elliottkember.com/payment ?
We don't even need that - most of the time,
a website redirects you to a secure page from an insecure one.
So your browser could just show the secure padlock instead of the https://, right?
No, just browsers.
The rest of the system can work as it currently does.
For the vast majority of people, the browser is the
only way they access the internet,
so this change would still benefit a lot of people.
