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Exactly what it says on the tin.
When links are displayed below an idea, if the URL is very long the textual version is shortened by deleting text in the middle and replacing it with an ellipsis. This keeps a long URL from messing up the formatting on an idea page.
I'd like the same logic
to be applied to links on a profile page. If you click my name below, you'll see I have a link in my profile that is very long, and really messes with the formatting.
example below
http://www.halfbake...:n=:i=:t=Newbies_3f above URL is actually 728 characters long [krelnik, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
SnipUrl
http://snipurl.com/ Alternative [kropotkin, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
[krelnik]'s link, but smaller...
http://snipurl.com/3ehy [silverstormer, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
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I have just experienced the seminal moment of viewing the HB from my mobile phone - you must excuse me if I am impressed but we brits are a bit backward in technology. Anything that stops me using too many slide bars to navigate a page would be welcome (imagine a cigarette packet sized window moving around a landscape-displayed tabloid newspaper)- . Note: I am not suggesting that the HB interface should be 124x200x24 Bits! |
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Those tiny url sites are handy, silverstormer, but most of them "expire" stuff out of their database eventually, don't they? I don't want to worry about a link on my profile page going stale. |
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I can't see the difference between [silver]'s and [Krel]'s links. Am I dumb in this regard? |
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Do it again. Look at the address bar for difference in url size. |
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The links go to the same place, but the actual URL I use is 768 characters long while silver's URL is a 21 character URL that redirects to it. Hover your mouse pointer over the URLs and see what you see in the status bar. |
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Thanks [k] and [thumb]. I simply compared results in Address Bar when loaded and have lost the dullard moment. |
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