The optional scheme in URLs

Happy you're seeing this Alex!

Sounds like you should encourage your users to do flounder URLs like that,
or potentially convert them to links like that yourself.

makeworld

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On Monday, August 24, 2020 10:20 AM, alex wennerberg <alex at alexwennerberg.com> wrote:

> Quoting Alex Schroeder (2020-08-24 06:24:36)
>
> > It turns out, this is not required. Just now, for example, I added link
> > like the following:
> > => //flounder.online/ Flounder, for simple web people
> > The magic of URLs is that the actual target depends on what you're
> > looking at: If you're looking at
> > https://transjovian.org:1965/gemini/page/Sites then the link goes to
> > https://flounder.online/ and when you're looking at
> > gemini://transjovian.org/gemini/page/Sites then the link goes to
> > gemini://flounder.online/.
>
> Ah, this is awesome -- I never knew this was part of the URL spec.
> Glad you're enjoying my site :)
>
> Alex

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