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Ian Cooper icooper at equinix.com
Sat Mar 10 00:59:09 UTC 2001


At 16:48 3/9/2001 -0800, Mike Batchelor wrote:
>It's all TBL's fault for inventing a URL format that puts the domain name
>right in front of the user.  Hide the browser's location bar somehow, and
>all these problems go away, no matter what strings are used at whatever
>level.
>
>I say we storm the W3C to make them pay for their sins.  Or better yet, make
>them run the registries, that'll show 'em. :)

I think you'll find that TBL has, on several occasions, commented that he 
never intended for URLs (or HTML for that matter) to be presented to or 
handled by humans.





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