> > > There was some discussion about this deprecation as the > > > Techpreviews (Win2k/NT4) did support literal url's. > > > The XP version and up though won't support it to overcome > > > one major 'problem': website 'designers' embedding IP's > > > inside websites to 'speed things up' (go figure). > > > > perfectly reasonable thing to do. browsers that don't support it > > are broken. > > It's perfectly reasonable to not support RFC2732? or?
it's perfectly reasonable for sites to use address literals in URLs referenced by their web pages.
