On 12 Jul 2009, at 10:46, Bruce Lawson wrote:
The eleventy squillion WordPress sites out there that allow comments
ask for your web page address as well as name and email. The method
of entering a URL does not require the http:// prefix; just
beginning the URL with www is accepted.
As it's very common for people to drop the http:// prefix on
advertising, business cards etc (and who amongst us reads out the
prefix when reading a URL on the phone?) I'd like to suggest that
input type="url" allows the http:// prefix to be optional on input
and, if ommitted, be assumed when parsing.
How do we tell apart "foo.html" (a relative URL) and "example.com" (a
host name)?
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Geoffrey Sneddon
<http://gsnedders.com/>
