Sir Tim: "Sorry for those Slashes!"

Posted By: Sabot | Oct 14th @ 11:26 AM
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#Oct 14th @ 11:26 AM
Sabot
Sabot
My name is Dave Oliver. I'm a Technical Architect.

Berners-Lee 'sorry' for slashes

Source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8306631.stm

 

"The forward slashes at the beginning of internet addresses have long annoyed net users and now the man behind them has apologised for using them.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, has confessed that the // in a web address were actually "unnecessary". "

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Thanks Tim! Geez, now you tell us!

 

#Oct 14th @ 12:14 PM
Dr Herbie
Dr Herbie
Horses for courses

Oh, but those poor little forward slashes -- if it wasn't for URLs, they wouldn't get any love at all!

 

Herbie

 

#Oct 14th @ 12:25 PM
TommyCarlier
TommyCarlier
I want my scalps!

They're used for division, fractions, for either/or, for separating parts of a path (in HTTP, FTP, OSes, …), to start IRC-commands, for comments in C-like languages, for closing XML/HTML-tags, delimiting regular expressions, date notations, …

They get plenty of love already. Slanted attention-seeking bästards.

#Oct 14th @ 1:36 PM
Dr Herbie
Dr Herbie
Horses for courses

No, no, no, those are completely different:  '/' for URL, '/' for all the rest of that stuff.  See? Completely different species.

 

Herbie

 

#Oct 14th @ 3:02 PM
rhm
rhm

I wonder if he's going to apologise for any of the other suckage of the web. As someone that's done a fair amount of web development, I think everything about the web is a massive fail... except for how successful it is. It's the canonical example of the 'worst possible solution' effect.

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