Drop the WWW Prefix

detail.design

1 point·eustoria··3 comments

This could use a lot more content.

How do HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 change things? (Sonnet 4.6 and ChatGPT [idk default free] told me they don't. Gemini 3 Fast gave me a long essay on how they technically do.)

Mostly it seems like it's other things--CNAME flattening and whatnot--that make it unnecessary.

But it's been unnecessary since long before HTTP/2, and we do it for semantic or historical reasons. I don't think anyone is including www because they think it's technically necessary.

If you want me to change the way I do things, make your case and support your claims! If the entire point here is "you don't need to include www", well, yeah, duh, we've all visited apex domains. We know it's a perfectly valid option.

Seems like the point of this website[0] is to provide a lot of concise, often opinionated design suggestions. Taken as a whole, it's interesting and worth browsing. This individual point? Under-developed.

It also missed out on making an obvious reference that would also add a reason for its recommendation: "Drop the www. It's cleaner."

[0] https://detail.design/

This sentence suggests that one couldn't have dropped the www back in the "early web days", which is BS. Having it or not bears no significance whatsoever, now or then. It was a marketing BS, no one remembers, no one cares...

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