[OGDev] Wiki formatting in website field

Chris Prather chris at prather.org
Sun Jun 10 21:16:38 BST 2007


On Jun 10, 2007, at 11:09 AM, Earle Martin wrote:

>
> In similar situations recently, I've decided to display a limited
> length chunk of the URL, or all of it if it's short. So it would look
> like
>
> * Website: http://this-url-is-really-long.com/and-it...
>
> or
>
> * Website: http://quiteshortsite.com/
>
> Both are of course working hyperlinks.
>
> Does this sound like a reasonable compromise?

I was going to suggest something similar, but I like yours better. If  
the URL is over a (wiki.conf configurable) length, then crop the  
displayed length, and link that.

-Chris



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