I cleaned up a few of the tinyurl.com links last night...I'll try to keep doing this on a regular basis.
Unless you would prefer I didn't...? Kevin Horn On 2/4/07, Christopher Arndt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Florent Aide schrieb: > > I have one small remark though you are using tinyurl services in the > > FAQ. What if tiny goes down ? > > I had thought about this myself and, incidentally I was using > http://smurl.name > instead of tinyurl.com until recently when it had a few hours (days?) > outage. > > But then again, who guarantees that the original Google URLs always stay > the same? > > > Maybe for the FAQ we could just display a shortened url but keep the > > real one inside our own document. That would be too bad to have tiny > > disappear and us not being able to put the hands on all these valuable > > URLs again. > > Yeah, but the Google URLs are just so unbelievably huge and ugly. I keep a > copy > of all the relevant messages in a special mail folder on my desktop box, > but of > course this doesn't help others. > > There is also the problem, that ReST does not allow you to have multiple > links > with the same link text in the same document. Rather silly, IMHO. (Or > maybe I > just haven't read the docs properly?). This means that you can't do the > following: > > Question #001: > Please see `this post <http://groups,google.com/akskaska...>`_. > > Question #002: > Please see `this post <http://groups,google.com/jksaknsa...>`_. > > so you either have to invent your own post IDs/names to make the link > texts > unique or you show the URL itself in the text: > > Question #001: > Please see this post: http://groups,google.com/akskaska... > > or > > Question #001: > Please see post `How to do foo`_. > > _ ..How to do foo: http://groups,google.com/akskaska... > > That's why I chose to use short URLs from tinyurl.com. > > Chris > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears Docs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears-docs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
