Class X7.45 is a proposal by website no-http to remove the ubiquitous 'http:' from the beginning of all URLs.

"HTTP is also deprecated due to the ever-evolving web: The HyperText Transfer Protocol is no longer used to transfer hypertext. It is increasingly becoming used a means to transfer any content over port 80. Thus the definition 'http' no longer means anything in the context of a URL since you are unlikely to be requesting hypertext."

Thus, a link on a webpage should use "//example.net", instead of "http://example.net/".

However, a few browsers like Opera seem unable to cope with this behaviour as of July 2006.

External links

• The no-http website
• Article at Webstandards.org