I have spotted a rather long URL at http://london.openguides.org/index.cgi?Benugo
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=531777&y=182152&z=0&sv=E... &st=2&tl=Postcode+EC1V+4JS&pc=EC1V+4JS& mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf
This rather messes the format of the page - at least under Firefox the "frame" (is there a proper name for this) stretches to fit the long URL.
This leads me to wonder - is or should there be a standard way of representing MAP references. I would prefer the grid ref to the postcode and certainly not both. - could the underlying software provide a built in map ref construct. [531777,182152]. - could the software truncate a long URL when displaying on teh screen.
This one time, at band camp, Andrew Black wrote:
I have spotted a rather long URL at http://london.openguides.org/index.cgi?Benugo
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=531777&y=182152&z=0&sv=E... &st=2&tl=Postcode+EC1V+4JS&pc=EC1V+4JS& mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf
This rather messes the format of the page - at least under Firefox the "frame" (is there a proper name for this) stretches to fit the long URL.
I found on my guide that this causes IE to render it in a really really nasty way. I've hacked the template to just use the word "Map".
In the template, this is all in a complex array of [% IF %] statements such that:
UNLESS map { IF address { (map link goes over address) } ELSE { (map link goes over the word "map") } }
Note I've also hacked with it to always give a map URL to Multimap, linked from the UTM coordinates.
Yes I've hacked the standard templates. Yes this will cause me pain.
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 01:32:03PM +0000, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
UNLESS map { IF address { (map link goes over address) } ELSE { (map link goes over the word "map") } }
This is something I was thinking about the other day, and I'd like to be in the standard templates, except that I'd like "(view map)" - my preferred wording - to be /always/ there. The way it works now is cute, but consistency is better.
Earle Martin wrote:
This is something I was thinking about the other day, and I'd like to be in the standard templates, except that I'd like "(view map)" - my preferred wording - to be /always/ there. The way it works now is cute, but consistency is better.
Afraid I don't understand the internals of Openguide to comment on changes to templates etc.
Is there anything as a user I (and everyone else) can do to prevent long URLs appearing on pages and make for more consistency. Something like including a title : http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=534807&Y=175030&A=Y&a... map of Peckham Rye Park
On Thu 20 Jan 2005, Andrew Black andrew3@black1.org.uk wrote:
Is there anything as a user I (and everyone else) can do to prevent long URLs appearing on pages and make for more consistency. Something like including a title : http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=534807&Y=175030&A=Y&a... map of Peckham Rye Park
Put the title in the Address field.
Kake
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