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Jessica - Oct 27, 2002 12:21:12 pm PST #963 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Weirdness in the upper-right corner:

(Whoa! I... I think I'm having a thought. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a thought ) Now I'm having a plan. Now I'm having a wiggins.
Xander, 'Innocence'

Laura - Oct 27, 2002 3:11:35 pm PST #964 of 10000
Our wings are not tired.

Firefly thread seems to be rather wide screen?

Michele T. - Oct 27, 2002 3:18:37 pm PST #965 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

I think that was just the URL string pushing it out for the one page, Laura.

Laura - Oct 27, 2002 3:20:22 pm PST #966 of 10000
Our wings are not tired.

Ah, well ok for the sake of pretty pictures.

DXMachina - Oct 27, 2002 3:45:18 pm PST #967 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Okay, I edited both Madrigal's and Daniel's links show that they don't run off the the side of the screen.

John H - Oct 27, 2002 9:29:22 pm PST #968 of 10000

What's the current thinking on the long-URL problem? I posted about it ages ago, and ita, did I email you some code?

My thoughts on possible ways to handle long URLs in posts were, if I recall correctly:

    • change them to
    [too-long URL removed]
  1. change them to http://domainname/[rest of too-long URL removed]
  2. change them to http://domainname/[...]/porn.htm
that last one being really "retain some of the URL if we can to provide a bit of context", but not really thought out.

Jon B. - Oct 27, 2002 10:51:46 pm PST #969 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I like the third idea. But, then, I don't have to code it.

§ ita § - Oct 27, 2002 10:58:24 pm PST #970 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I don't think the last one is a safe solution, since querystrings can make that still a very long adjusted URL.

Burrell - Oct 27, 2002 11:48:01 pm PST #971 of 10000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I just had my first weird bug-that-can-only-be-discovered-through-random-user-behavior. I used the quick-edit spoiler font, and then started the next line with an arrow, using a caret to create the point of the arrow. All the text following the caret got eaten.

John H - Oct 27, 2002 11:54:51 pm PST #972 of 10000

I don't think the last one is a safe solution, since querystrings can make that still a very long adjusted URL.

I think the formula in my head is "remove all directory information after the domain name, and remove all query string stuff after the name of the document, if there is any"

so

www.somewhere.com/blah/blah/blah/blah/blah/porn.htm

becomes

www.somewhere.com/[...]/porn.htm

and

www.somewhere.com/blah/blah/login.php?x=123456&y=123456&z=123456

becomes

www.somewhere.com/[...]/login.php

or something like that.

It's the query strings that are normally the problem, not the dirs, right?

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