Recent update to latest dev in Google Chrome seems to have brought a change in url display.
While browsers display URL's as "http://news.ycombinator.com/",
this builde of Chrome currently does it as "news.ycombinator.com".<p>The same happened in the Google I/O Chrome Web Store preview. The url was of the store was not prefixed by "http://".
Other protocols, https/ftp, are explicitly listed, though.<p>Is it another step towards minimalistic approach, as most url's have "http://" in them, so why not skip displaying it?
Or does it have some technological relevance?
That's been for a while now, atleast on the versions i have.
I don't really like it, but well.. Especially since, when you copy the url, the <a href="http://" rel="nofollow">http://</a> is added again. It's kind of inconsistent.