> From: Jan Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > IE does what you tell it if you give it a proper URL.
Very true. > That it doesn't behave in the way you intended when you gave > it a non-standardised, abbreviated input, is not something that > it should be castigated for - unless you count teaching people > the notion that "www.example.org" is a valid URL. Well, that's one way of looking at it. However, since IE seems to go out of it's way to "help" you out, one would NOT necessarily be WRONG to expect that it would "help" consistently. If I simply type "apple" in the "address bar" IE will prefix "apple" with "http://www."; and add the ".com" suffix, after failing to connect to just "apple". Likewise, if I simply type an ip address, IE will prefix it with "http://";. You really get used to these SHORTCUTS, and begin to depend on them. So, it's NOT really WRONG to expect that "192.168.1.1:80" will give the same results as "192.168.1.1". IN FACT, Mozilla Navigator, Opera, and other browsers WILL work as expected if you type either "192.168.1.1" or "192.168.1.1:80". To expect ANYTHING LESS could be considered WRONG. IMHO, M$ should fix this "problem". :) Paul -- Paul A. Scott mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://skycoast.us/pscott/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
