Albert Reiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew M. Bishop), 19 Dec 2006 19:43:41 +0000]:
> > For URLs like Google things look much better in the index with:
> >
> > http://www.google.co.uk/search?q="wwwoffle is great"
> >
> > than with:
> >
> > http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22wwwoffle+is+rubbish%22
> >
> > The first one is much more readable than the second one.
>
> And so much more reasonable - surely there won't be any search results
> for the latter!
>
> (In my case, though, I would prefer
> http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22wwwoffle+is+great%22 as I am only
> really interested in the URLs if I want to paste it somewhere else: In
> lynx ("advanced" mode), the URL for the currently highlighted link is
> shown in the last line, but long URLs may not fit into a single line.
> Copying the URL is therefore impractical for long URLs if I have to go
> through that displayed URL instead of being able to rely on the URL in
> the index. Also, at least on my system there are strange effects when
> using lynx on the console with unicode (utf-8?) characters in the URL.
> E.g., http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchen is not really less
> readable than what is displayed, where %C3 appears as a capital "A"
> with tilde, and %BC as the fraction 1/4. But these problems may be
> specific to the browser or installation.)
If you are using lynx or any text browser then not seeing the full URL
in plain text will be more of a problem. With most graphical browers
you can hold the mouse over the link and see the full URL or press the
right mouse button and chose to copy the URL. In both of these cases
you will get the real URL and not WWWOFFLE's pretty printed version.
Perhaps removing the pretty printing of the URL is the real solution
to this. On the other hand this feature has been in WWWOFFLE for many
years and nobody has ever felt strongly enough about it to raise the
problem before. Even now there doesn't seem to be enough people who
want to see the change made to be worth changing it.
--
Andrew.
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Andrew M. Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/
WWWOFFLE users page:
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.9/user.html
