IMHO even a shortened URL must be a URL. So without http:// it is not a valid URL and so I would agree with a no here.
But I am not a developer for statusnet (ATM). Just an interested bystander. Jan -- Jan H Wildeboer | EMEA Open Source Affairs | Office: +49 (0)89 205071-207 Red Hat GmbH | Mobile: +49 (0)174 33 23 249 Technopark II, Haus C | Fax: +49 (0)89 205071-111 Werner-von-Siemens-Ring 11 -15 | 85630 Grasbrunn | _____________________________________________________________________ Reg. Adresse: Red Hat GmbH, Technopark II, Haus C, Werner-von-Siemens-Ring 11 -15 85630 Grasbrunn, Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Muenchen HRB 153243 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Brendan Lane, Charlie Peters, Michael Cunningham, Charles Cachera _____________________________________________________________________ GPG Key: 3AC3C8AB Fingerprint: 3D1E C4E0 DD67 E16D E47A 9564 A72F 5C39 3AC3 C8AB ----- Original Message ----- From: laconica-dev-boun...@laconi.ca <laconica-dev-boun...@laconi.ca> To: Craig Andrews <candr...@integralblue.com> Cc: laconica-dev@laconi.ca <laconica-dev@laconi.ca> Sent: Thu Sep 10 00:11:49 2009 Subject: Re: [StatusNet-dev] Remove http:// from shortened URLs Craig Andrews wrote: > I just made a commit to 0.8.x > http://gitorious.org/laconica/mainline/commit/e2848eb8621dd645fa68cb1641c0af1df5530408 > > 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? -Evan -- Evan Prodromou CEO, Control Yourself, Inc. e...@controlyourself.ca - http://identi.ca/evan - +1-514-554-3826 _______________________________________________ Laconica-dev mailing list Laconica-dev@laconi.ca http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev _______________________________________________ Laconica-dev mailing list Laconica-dev@laconi.ca http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev
