From openguides@downlode.org Sun Jun 10 17:09:25 2007
From: Earle Martin <openguides@downlode.org>
To: openguides-dev@lists.openguides.org
Subject: Re: [OGDev] Wiki formatting in website field
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:09:20 +0100
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On 10/06/07, Kake L Pugh <kake(a)earth.li> wrote:
> I've just realised that using the domain name is possibly not the best
> idea either, since some domain names are rather long, so we'd not
> actually be solving the problem of URLs stretching across the page.
>
> > On Sun 10 Jun 2007, Dominic Hargreaves <dom(a)earth.li> wrote:
> > just display it as
> >
> > <a href="http://www.example.org/">Website</a>
>
> I thought of that, but decided it might look a bit wrong in the middle of
> a list of key: value pairs to suddenly have something that's just a key:

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?

-- 
Earle Martin
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