Talk:Homepage
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Shouldn't this be called "homepage," not "Homepage definition"? --user:Daniel C. Boyer
Re "It has the shortest URL: just the domain name": is this really so? Aren't many homepages located a number of directories from the domain root? A-giau 01:51, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Meaning
Is this really true: "the website of a group or individual"? I've only ever heard it being used this way by Germans who fell victim to a (IMO) false friend. I have checked a number of dictionaries and all agree that it can only refer to the main page of a web site. Also, the use as the browser's start page is very rare, if ever, and neither backed up by any dictionary. If it were widespread, OK -- but I don't think we should acknowledge occasional wrong usage in an encyclopedia. H005 12:42, September 12, 2005 (UTC)
Is this really true: "the website of a group or individual"?
- Yes
I have checked a number of dictionaries and all agree that it can only refer to the main page of a web site.
- ...dictionaries on internet jargon? Waste of time.
Also, the use as the browser's start page is very rare, if ever, and neither backed up by any dictionary.
- Um, no...:
- Mozilla/Firefox: Preferences > General > Home Page
- Internet Explorer: Options > Home Page
It's fine as it is. ¦ Reisio 14:00, 2005 September 12 (UTC)
- Dictionaries on internet jargon are proper sources, not wastes of time.. This is from the American Heritage Dictionary:
- The opening or main page of a website, intended chiefly to greet visitors and provide information about the site or its owner.
- Now then.. The website of a group or individual is an auxillary meaning more slang than literal definition, but could be still included on the article I think... Not entirely sure.. The important thing is to have sources to cite, as that is the most rampant issue with Wikipedia, the lack of citation, particularly in new information, so those dictionaries aren't a waste of time, but partially vital to the expansion to the article(even more important might be the development of the homepage, from what it once was to what it is now).--Vercalos 05:21, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] this article is a stub pretending to be a disambiguation
As I recall from the early days of the web, "The URL or local file that is automatically loaded when a web browser starts" was the original meaning of the term, but I could be wrong. This would be a good place to come to find out where the phrase really comes from, and how and when it came to be used for these other things as well. It is not clear, and seems unlikely, that following any of these disambiguation links that will answer any of those questions. Having just a disambiguation page without an actual article doesn't work. 67.168.216.176 16:35, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
- Possibly, though in the early days of the Web, browsers didn't usually automatically load a Web page as the Home page. Unless and until there is a better article here, though, it's still a dab page. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 18:11, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
