At 12:20 2002-04-07 +0800, Stas Bekman wrote: >>I'm worried that the non-hypertext renderings of such Pod would be even >>worse. >Please explain how would it be worse?
Well, one way is by not showing the URL at all. And if we go the other way and plaintext-render it as "linktext (<scheme:...>)", then I worry that people writing Pod and seeing just its HTML renderings may not sufficiently appreciate the visual "cost" of a hyperlink in different media, whereas this is always quite apparent with L<scheme:...> links -- since they basically come out the same length in all media. >Huh? Various resources have various URL lengths. You want another shorter >example? >http://example.com/news.html?item_32894_43ER_54&where_4358asdf08 >This example comes to show that lots of URLs are very meaningless and >shouldn't be displayed as is even if they short. Except in plaintext renderings? I don't doubt that such long links exist. I'm curious whether they're a common problem tho. (Note the two parts: common, and problem.) Recall that Pod is not everything for everyone -- it's the 80/20 rule as applied to markup. And moreover, no-one will go blind from seeing long URLs. (Not that blindness-prevention is my /only/ criterion in considering what is good for Pod.) -- Sean M. Burke http://www.spinn.net/~sburke/
