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Re: URL Offsets Prevent URLs from being passed to a browser

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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 17:16
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Hans Galema wrote:

>That would have made things inconsequent. http:// invokes communication
>with a webserver. Where a -local-file:// has to be grabbed by the browser
>itself. Quite different.

If you fire up I.E. and enter a URL from the address bar, you don't
type in the http: or file:, just the URL, and it decides where that
resides.  Why should starting it with a commandline be any different?

Why should the programmer interface be dumber than the user interface?
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From: Bob Gonder <notbg@notmindspring.invalid>
Newsgroups: borland.public.cppbuilder.nativeapi
Subject: Re: URL Offsets Prevent URLs from being passed to a browser
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 10:16:17 -0700
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