22 July, 2016 (updated 5 March, 2017) Paul Irish wrote about the protocol-relative URL way back in 2010. It was a convenient little post that advised developers to abandon absolute protocol URL schemes using http:// or https:// in favor of a protocol-relative variant that looks something like this: This convenient syntax eliminates the need for developers to construct URLs based on the user's curr
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