On 8/8/05, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 11:24:18AM +0300, T=F6r=F6k Edvin wrote: 
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> Why?  Did the maintainer ask for input?
No, it's just me who wanted a little debate on it.
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> I don't see anything particularly wrong with it.  People who don't
> understand what URIs are will, IME, generally just type the domain name
> without specifying a protocol.
I agree, but they can still misstype the URL, or the site may just be down.
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> People who understand what URIs are should bloody well be able to figure =
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> that they did something wrong and try again.
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> The fact that a number of these searches wind up at microsoft.com, though=
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> when doing a direct google search on the entered string does not, suggest=
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> there is room for improvement in the auto-searching feature...
But they might end up anywhere, it depends what the user  has misstyped.
And maybe the user isn't the one who has misstyped, maybe he is
following a link on a site, and the link is broken. Then he won't know
that the link was broken, because he gets redirected and maybe to the
wrong place.
There other issues with it: an auto-redirection shouldn't be performed
in the first place. If the user wants to do a search there is the
search bar.
I shouldn't get redirected because I misstyped a URL (not only the
http://, other parts can be misstyped too). Maybe the site I am trying
to access is down temporarly, that doesn't mean I have to get
redirected to some other site.
My point is that firefox should at least ask the user if it wants to
auto-redirect, and it shouldn't be the default IMHO.


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> --
> Steve Langasek
> postmodern programmer
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