TECH: Netscape - Handy URL keystroke hints

[Gabriel Gancarz <gancarz@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>]

I have half-bad news for those of you out there who like the idea of just
typing in the middle of a ".com" domain (e.g. just typing "cnn" on the URL
line instead of the whole "http://www.cnn.com") on Netscape.

I forgot to mention that this handy-dandy technique will not work for URLs
such as "www.chicago.tribune.com" or "espnet.sportszone.com" (i.e. typing
"chicago.tribune" or "espnet.sportszone" instead of the rest of the "www"
and/or ".com" stuff will not work).  You need to type in that stuff when
you want to go to a site with a "." inside of the middle names (note I use
a plural here in following the examples) in the domains.  I simply learned
this through experimenting.  I don't know why this is, but at least you
don't have to type "http://".

By the way, notice that "espnet.sportszone.com" does not have "www" in
front of it.  Why?  There's no need for it.  Web sites can have anything
they
want
before stuff like ".edu" or ".com" or ".gov", etc.  The only reason so
many
URLs have "www" in them is mostly because it's fashionable (the old
"Everybody's doing it").  Many people think that "www" is necessary for a
URL.  Now you know that it's not.  Another example of a URL without "www"
is the one below.
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Gabriel R. Gancarz
Webmaster, Orchard Beach State Park - A State Parks Online Site of the Week
http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~gancarz/obsp.htm

University of Illinois - Graduate School of Library and Information Science

"If you aim for PERFECTION, you'll reach Greatness.
 If you aim for Greatness, you'll reach good.
 If you aim for good, you'll reach average."       - Lou Holtz
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