Large URLs
Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 10:13 pm
Hi All:
I recently was directed to an entry in troutgirl's blog. This may be a pretty infamous entry as it relates to Friendster moving to PHP from PHP. In any event, I was little infuriated (is it possible to be "a little" infuriated?) that the page format spilled off the browser page, and forced me to scroll horizontally.
I checked on IE (I use Firefox as my default) and sure enough it didn't do that. After a little while I noticed that the other pages rendered properly in both IE and Firefox. I went back to the PHP/Java page and found a long URL at the bottom of the page. It wasn't a link, it was just a URL someone had typed in as part of their comment. It turns out Firefox won't break a word, but IE will when there are special characters.
OK, so this may not be a true "bug" of Serendipity, but I think it ought to be addressed. Perhaps we could have an option somewhere which would specify whether Serendipity is allowed to break long URL's/words?
Just a thought...
Also, my apologies for being infuriated out of hand like that. I'm working on it.
- AAA
I recently was directed to an entry in troutgirl's blog. This may be a pretty infamous entry as it relates to Friendster moving to PHP from PHP. In any event, I was little infuriated (is it possible to be "a little" infuriated?) that the page format spilled off the browser page, and forced me to scroll horizontally.
I checked on IE (I use Firefox as my default) and sure enough it didn't do that. After a little while I noticed that the other pages rendered properly in both IE and Firefox. I went back to the PHP/Java page and found a long URL at the bottom of the page. It wasn't a link, it was just a URL someone had typed in as part of their comment. It turns out Firefox won't break a word, but IE will when there are special characters.
OK, so this may not be a true "bug" of Serendipity, but I think it ought to be addressed. Perhaps we could have an option somewhere which would specify whether Serendipity is allowed to break long URL's/words?
Just a thought...
Also, my apologies for being infuriated out of hand like that. I'm working on it.
- AAA