On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Evan Prodromou <[email protected]>wrote:
> Craig Andrews wrote: >> >> >> If a shortened URL begins with http://, don't include it in the shortened >> url. Saves 7 characters, which is pretty awesome for 140 character max >> length notices. >> >> I don't know why this wasn't done before... I think this will be really >> liked by users. >> >> > But it won't be recognized as an URL by downstream systems like Facebook, > FriendFeed, and Twitter. > > I'm not sure it's the right thing to do. Opinions? Definitely a -1. As Evan said, the http:// is usually part of the regex for detecting URLs. If you remove that, clients will treat links as plaintext, making them unclickable. I'm thinking users definitely WON'T like that! I think it's also possible that certain URLs will look confusingly like words and NOT links — and depending on the color of one's links, might cause confusion (since the link won't be discoverable). Anyway, while this is a clever idea, it'd probably break more than you might expect! Chris -- Chris Messina Open Web Advocate Personal: http://factoryjoe.com Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/chrismessina Citizen Agency: http://citizenagency.com Diso Project: http://diso-project.org OpenID Foundation: http://openid.net This email is: [ ] bloggable [X] ask first [ ] private
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