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Connecting => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: palmann on March 21, 2006, 10:17:44 AM

Title: Technical question
Post by: palmann on March 21, 2006, 10:17:44 AM

I'm using my Laptop with a 1024x800 screen to read this forum. Quite often wide pictures or long posted links screw up the layout of the page, which leaves a thread very hard to read.
 
Is anyone having the same problems? I know, that with other messageboards a link that is too long to be displayed correctly will be diplayed like this, whereas the link of this URL will still be correct:
 
http://cgi.ebay.de/AL.....QQcmdZViewItem (http://cgi.ebay.de/AL.....QQcmdZViewItem) (of course this isn't working here)
 
BTW, when refering to an eBay auction it's fully sufficient, to post the number of the eBay article, like this: 7400453992 (Nice guitar, btw).
 
Gruesse, Pablo

Title: Technical question
Post by: mica on March 21, 2006, 11:04:32 AM

Yes, it is a problem when long URLs are posted without using the `link formatting tag. To use the link formatting tag, input:  
 
`link{URLhere, shorter clickable name here}  
 
and your helpful URL won't scroll off the right edge, as only the shorter clickable name will display and look something like this:
 
 1994 6-string Essence (http://cgi.ebay.com/Alembic-Essence-6-string-1994-Nice-multi-lam-OHSC_W0QQitemZ7400307348QQcategoryZ4713QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)
 
Of course, you can also use the Opera browser, which will wrap long URLs.  
 
Can you imagine if I didn't impose a 150K limit on picutures how many of those would scroll off? I tend to leave the horizontal dimension on my pictures to a maximum of 600 pixels so that the text can wrap comfortably.