Some ugly buggy pages in Mozilla Firefox, page 1
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reply posted on 2-3-2005 @ 12:55 PM by wecomeinpeace
The problem is usually caused by long urls as spectre stated. There are online services that will shorten a url for you, but I think they do it by registering a new (shorter) domain that redirects to the original target url. This one is free and fast, however manually shortening links this way would need to be done by mods after the fact. Perhaps there is a way that it could be automated in the html/php/css coding...?


reply posted on 2-3-2005 @ 03:04 PM by supercheetah
Originally posted by wecomeinpeace
The problem is usually caused by long urls as spectre stated. There are online services that will shorten a url for you, but I think they do it by registering a new (shorter) domain that redirects to the original target url. This one is free and fast, however manually shortening links this way would need to be done by mods after the fact. Perhaps there is a way that it could be automated in the html/php/css coding...?
Interesting. I've been using TinyURL for this purpose for a while now. That's pretty much all I've seen other people use. I've not seen people use the ones you've mentioned. NotLong.com isn't registering domains! That'd get really expensive after a while. They're using the one they bought (notlong.com) and creating subdomain names, which is something anybody with a domain name can do. TinyURL uses hashing, which is a computer technique that associates some data with a string of characters (they're not random necessarily, but they can be.) I'm surprised TinyURL hasn't run into any collisions (that's when two pieces of data are associated with the same hash.)

Sorry, I'm geek.

PS Oh, yeah, here's an example that links to this thread.

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