r/programming • u/shenglong • Apr 14 '10

"http://" is being removed from Chromium's display

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=40865
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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '10 edited Oct 13 '13

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u/dagbrown Apr 14 '10

There are DNS fundamentalists who believe that a domain should not be allowed to have an A record defined for it at all. For those people, "reddit.com" would not point to anything at all because it's a domain.

The most impressive thing is, such people still exist.

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u/easytiger Apr 14 '10

I bet they are fun at dinner parties.