suggestion about inserting link on this forum

[newbie2]

when you want to insert a link here on the board and you use the insert-link button above in the 'post new thread window' , you usually end up with 2 http's in that link, ... and 2http's after each other end up on ....guess what... --> microsoft.com :p ...serious error here i think :rolleyes:

[23meg]

It's not an error; in the textbox that appears, http:// is already there, so when you paste a link with an http:// already in it you're inserting two instances. The first http:// appears in the box so that you can easily type in a URL without having to type http:// ; if you'll paste something and don't want it, you should double click the text box so that the URL will replace it.

[newbie2]

It's not an error; in the textbox that appears, http:// is already there, so when you paste a link with an http:// already in it you're inserting two instances. The first http:// appears in the box so that you can easily type in a URL without having to type http:// ; if you'll paste something and don't want it, you should double click the text box so that the URL will replace it.
has micro$oft a patent or something on this? --> http://http://

[23meg]

My guess is that when Firefox can't locate an adress, it does a Google "I'm feeling lucky" search and Microsoft has perhaps done some "Goggle bombing" (Google this term if you're not familiar with it) to get the term http:// to stick to themselves. Good plan, I say.

[newbie2]

My guess is that when Firefox can't locate an adress, it does a Google "I'm feeling lucky" search and Microsoft has perhaps done some "Goggle bombing" (Google this term if you're not familiar with it) to get the term http:// to stick to themselves. Good plan, I say.
so...if we would all work together ...we could 'own' that 'double //http' and make a link to this forum :p ...how should we do it?...would be a good one though...:p

[23meg]

Not sure we could, but we'd give it quite a high rank.