Post by Gareth Slee Thought it might be an interesting exercise? See http//homepage.mac.com/gslee1/newsread.html
Hmmmmm, this redirects to http://www.microsoft.com/
That's because there needs to be a ":" between "http" and "//". Without the ":" your browser doesn't recognise it as a URL.
If the "http://" were completely absent, most browsers will correctly guess that it's a URL and add it, but if it's partly present they can get a bit confused.
Is this really Gareth? The dedicated Mac user Gareth using Outhouse Distress? Crossposting to 7 newsgroups? (I'd love to find out how this got past my 5 group maximum). Gareth who's more than aware there's quite a Dialog following in here?
Sorry it is me... I've been trying out Virtual PC and Outlook Express. First and last time...
Anyway if anyone's still interested the URl for the poll is http://homepage.mac.com/gslee1/newsread.html