You can generate short URLs straight from Flickr too. It gives you a flic.kr link.
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:42 PM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2011-05-26 11:56 , Bob Sullivan wrote: >> >> Miserere, >> I feel bad about how this discussion is going. >> You are generous in trying to offer a solution to facilitate Christine's >> groups. >> But every time I click on a Flickr link, there is some kind of problem. >> I still don't link to a single picture, and I'm having further >> problems with LC's links. > > i think this is related to the problem with the links > >> My gmail doesn't like his whole link, just the first part. >> It thinks the last part is a phone number and brings up the phone app. > > this is not a Flickr problem, it occurs on other URLs in email too; it's > because the URL is long, and is not enclosed in angle brackets; gmail > handles it correctly if the same URLs are presented like so: > > <http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/5760523494/in/set-72157626807385116/> > > for those who don't like to use angle brackets, or for those whose email > clients don't handle them correctly, tinyurl or bit.ly are a workaround > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
