[openbeos] Re: Geeky T-Shirt Day
- From: Lars Hansson <lars-openbeos-misc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:35:48 +0800
Simon Taylor wrote:
In response to Lars, people could guess .com's were web addresses,
> but .org is a less well-known TLD.
I prefer to think that people are actually smart enough to understand
that .org works just like .com.
I'm not convinced normal people would instantly recognise "haiku-os.org"
> as a web address.
I seriously doubt people who dont know that haiku-os.org is a website
are in any way interested in Haiku in the first place.
Whenever web addresses are quoted in broadcast media people never say
> "H T T P colon forward-slash forward-slash" for obvious reasons.
> "W W W dot" or even "all the Ws dot" is much more common.
I've heard broadcast media saying simply google.com. I dont think I've
ever heard anyone say www.google.com. I've certainly never heard anyone
say "all the Ws dot".
Waldemar's reasoning for his change is that www.haiku-os.org
> redirects to haiku-os.org (note how I've naturally skipped
> the http:// too!) - fair enough, but to me it is the
> website redirection that needs fixing and not the AboutHaiku window.
Waldemar is correct. haiku-os.org is the actual website where
www.haiku-os.org is just a convenient alias. This does not really relate
to what should/should not be on t-shirts and about boxes though.
As a webhosting provider I can tell you that people are actually asking
to have the site without the www prefix and just redirect from www. They
dont use www on businesscards or other promotional material.
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Lars Hansson
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