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.
First of all, we need to know if this would cause a substantial amount of hassle for people. I know that RGL makes heavy use of the square bracket syntax in the website field, but I'm OK with sorting that out. Will this be an issue for anyone else?
As far as I know St. Paul doesn't do this.
We'd also need an alternative way of deciding on the link text for long URLs. Possibilities:
- Another metadata field (downside: the edit form is already
pretty full)
- Fixed text defined by us, e.g. "Home page of this
place" (downside: not sure it's possible to come up with something suitable that everyone will like)
- Some method of generating link text from the URL. Dom suggested
just using the domain name, so e.g. http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/ AMR.html would display as Website: [www.nationalrail.co.uk] or maybe Website: [nationalrail.co.uk]
Thoughts?
Well you can do what dispy does online and grab the title from the remote page, or go through a shortener like xrl.us
-Chris