Because some mail servers and some aps break up the long urls and render them ineffective. Mark
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Francis Norton <[email protected]>wrote: > Out of curiosity, why do people use URL shrinkers when posting to mail > lists? I like being able to inspect a URL before I click on it - > compressing > and thus disguising it seems to me to be a UX degradation in any context > other than Twitter where it's pretty well unavoidable - am I missing > something? > Francis. > > 2009/6/23 <[email protected]> > > > Saw this [1] and thought of all of the IxD people on here who deal with > the > > haptic & tactile. > > > > Now, there's something analogous to nature in this particular concept but > > I'll leave that to you to resolve. > > > > [1] http://bit.ly/JIAyd > > > > John > > ________________________________________________________________ > > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > > > > > > -- > "Tigers walk behind me, they're there to remind me - I'm lost but I'm not > afraid" David Byrne and Brian Eno: Life is long > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
