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.