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Baby Got Back, or Usability Ain’t All About The Front-end

Which is more ridiculous?

Posting a URL in a web community forum with automatic URL-to-link functionality without including the “http://” (?), or the fact that no forum software recognizes a URL without the http:// with its URL-to-link feature?

Yes, the latter. I agree. No forum software I know even gives you the option.

Fill in obvious rant about not placing the burden on the site visitor and putting the site to work for the site visitor here.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 21st, 2004 at 12:10 pm and is filed under Web Development. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

2 Responses to “Baby Got Back, or Usability Ain’t All About The Front-end”

  1. Lach Says:
    July 21st, 2004 at 10:48 am

    The problem is, where do you draw the line? If you make things too inclusive, then you might find any old decimal number (e.g. 12.45) or typo (’He was good.At school…’) being linked to. If you don’t make it inclusive enough people will always find weird ways to break it.

  2. jtnt Says:
    July 22nd, 2004 at 7:11 am

    A good regex goes a long way. Many more advanced strings have been parsed than the possible variations of a URL.

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