On 6/26/07, BARRY HOLLAND <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Before Barry jumps in and complains [rightly so!] about long, > cumbersome > URLs [note no apostrophe], here's what should have been done in the first > place: > > http://tinyurl.com/2b28sn > > Cheers, > > Phil, > nb short&sweet > > > I'm impressed! Currently doing my "Honorary Steward" thing at Wimbledon > & their computers are very restrictive but I was able to open this with no > trouble. How come one 2click to open" is the length of a Harry Potter novel > & the other is only half a line but both take you to the same site? > Barry > Nb comeontim
Because the first is the ACTUAL url for the article, and the second is one that is artificially produced at the tinyurl.com website. Try it: http://www.tinyurl.com If you were able to type out the 'Harry Potter novel' on one line, you'd be able to click on it and the site would open. However, the url is so long that it exceeds the line length specified by your e-mail program, and wraps to the next line. Some browsers will still recognize the whole thing as an address, others will recognize some but not all of it, and yet others will only recognize the first line. Let me explain that. When I click on the original, my browser 'sees' all except the last eight characters, which appear on the third line. No problem, just remember them, and type them in manually. On the other hand, when I try to 'Copy & Paste', even though I click and drag over the entire url, for some reason the utility only 'sees' the first line. I think what tinyurl does is to set up an alias for the original url, so that when you click on theirs, you are automatically redirected to the desired site. Don't ask me how they do it, or how they determine what the new urls will be--I dunno. Hope you're not washed away at Wimbledon, Barry. Although I'm not a tennis fan, I am [will be] cheering for Daniel Nestor and Mark Knowles in the Doubles matches. Cheers, Phil nb canajan,eh? -- Phil & Anne Irons Sydney, Nova Scotia [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
