I think the idea is to keep it simple for most users, not the techies.
I don't think many non-techies have any clue why the http is there, and they (rightly) don't care.
As for "adding an 's' for the secure site", once again, how many non-techies do you know actually do this? I'm not saying that's a good thing, but most casual computer users don't know about that. Hopefully they know about the lock icon on most browsers, but I actually kinda doubt that too.
I think the idea is to keep it simple for most users, not the techies.
I don't think many non-techies have any clue why the http is there, and they (rightly) don't care.
As for "adding an 's' for the secure site", once again, how many non-techies do you know actually do this? I'm not saying that's a good thing, but most casual computer users don't know about that. Hopefully they know about the lock icon on most browsers, but I actually kinda doubt that too.