Those of you who have tried it prior to yesterday would have noticed that “darthvid.com” and “www.darthvid.com” resolves to their respective URLs. My intention was that all non-www would be redirected to www, but I’ve never been able to implement it properly in my host (I’ve been using 110mb for almost a year now and it’s been very good to me and my humble needs). I got it working to a certain degree (I used the solutions here and here), but I haven’t rigged the redirection to work with permalinks yet.
As I re-tried to get redirection working yesterday, I learned about the efforts of some to advocate for the deprecation of www in URLs. Granted that the so-called “deprecation” of www is still in the air, it’s pretty much expected to find another group advocating the opposite (complete with a complementary URL to boot!). As polar as their views may be, both camps appear to agree that BOTH www and non-www should be supported, albeit they’d rather the URL resolves to each camp’s favored format.
I remember considering which version to use when I first got my domain, and I honestly can’t remember why I chose www (perhaps the reason is in this blog’s archives). Regardless, given the recently gleaned information from both sides, I’d like to give my current default (yes-www) another thought. I believe that at this point in time people will gravitate to personal preferences, with mine currently based on the fact that including “www” easily clues one in that text in question is a URL even without the clunky “http://” in front.
Knowing myself, I’ll probably attempt to setup the site to easily switch between both, inlcuing handling of permalinks prior to updating my decision.
[side notes]
Just for fun, lets take a look at these samples side by side
http://no-www.org vs http://www.yes-www.org
Having the subdomain as part of the domain name really makes the URL look awkward.
http://slashdot.org vs http://www.slashdot.org
www.slashdot.org resolves to slashdot.org. I’ve gotten so used to this format for slashdot that it feels right to me.
http://wired.com vs http://www.wired.com
wired.com resolves to www.wired.com. I typically use wired.com in conversations, but when specifying the URL, www.wired.com is personally more appealing to me text wise.
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