LiveMusic Posted April 8, 2004 Share Posted April 8, 2004 Just curious if all browsers allow you to type... musicplayer.com ...into the browser window and it will find http://www.musicplayer.com ? > > > [ Live! ] < < < Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salyphus Posted April 8, 2004 Share Posted April 8, 2004 You already asked this and already were answered. It depends on the server configuration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theblue1 Posted April 8, 2004 Share Posted April 8, 2004 Salodious is right. Actually the DNS (domain name) server, which is not the same as the site's file server and may actually be provided by another company. Most sites are set up for either but some sites (like Soundclick to my continual chagrin) insist on the www. But anyway. One thing that's handy in later versions of IE on the PC is the ability to type in just the 'core' of the name and hit control-enter and IE will add on the "www." at the beginning and the ".com" at the end. (Of course, that's no help at sites with other suffixes or whose names don't include a "www." bookmark these: news.google.com | m-w dictionary | wikipedia encyclopedia | Columbia Encyclopedia TK Major / one blue nine | myspace.com/onebluenine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dementia13 Posted April 9, 2004 Share Posted April 9, 2004 Browsers will typically make that kind of attempt: you can see it with Lynx, if you type in a single word, you can see it trying to find the website, first by appending ".com" and then ".net" and going through the cycle until it finds a site or doesn't. Still, I find that some websites just won't show up unless I type the "www" in front. Creamware.de is one, IIRC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salyphus Posted April 9, 2004 Share Posted April 9, 2004 Originally posted by theblue1: One thing that's handy in later versions of IE on the PC is the ability to type in just the 'core' of the name and hit control-enter and IE will add on the "www." at the beginning and the ".com" at the end. (Of course, that's no help at sites with other suffixes or whose names don't include a "www."Mac browsers have been doing that for many many years. Netscape on the PC may have done it too, can't remember.. I was also very glad when MS finally added that improvement to IE, I would always do it anyway and be really annoyed when it didn't work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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