[OGDev] Wiki formatting in website field

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 11:04:39PM -0500, Chris Prather wrote:
> 
> On Jun 9, 2007, at 12:19 PM, Kake L Pugh wrote:
> 
> >
> > Dom would definitely like to stop supporting this, and I mostly  
> > agree with
> > him.  In order to do this we need two things.
> 
> I have to agree with Dom (and you), this is probably a bad thing. I'm  
> surprised it doesn't break the RDF export already.

It does; this is where we started:

http://dev.openguides.org/ticket/21

> Well you can do what dispy does online and grab the title from the  
> remote page, or go through a shortener like xrl.us

The first idea is a possibility, except that there is no particular
guarantee the title tag will be sane, or that you will be able to
retrieve the page at the time.

I am against using a URL shortener for this, as it introduces a
dependency on an external service, and obfuscates things.

Another possibility I don't remember discussing is rather than
displaying it as:

Website: <a href="http://www.example.org/">foo</a>
or
Website: http://www.example.org

just display it as

<a href="http://www.example.org/">Website</a>

Dominic.

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