Lindsay Donaghe wrote: > Could you please have the max length set on text box that you can type > the description in so that you don't type a whole paragraph and then > find it truncated when you look at your saved link? I end up with > that happening all the time and it would be really easy to prevent > from del.icio.us <http://del.icio.us/> 's side just by setting the > maxlength attribute on the text area. And then people wouldn't have > to wonder what the max length is. > > I just hate losing data and having things cut off in mid-sentence or > even mid-word.
When I was planning my own bookmark manager (before I discovered del.icio.us) I also realized the need to truncate notes at some point. I'd also decided on 255, but was going to have the engine be smart enough to back up to the preceding whitespace and add ellipsis there to indicate the truncation. But then, I'd already decided I was perfectly fine with silent truncation. > Even better (but probably less likely) it would be nice if we could > have more than 255 characters to work with. About double that would > be a lot more useful for me. Gotta cut it somewhere. 255 chars is roughly 40 words (in English). I think in a majority of cases that's sufficient for a reminder/summary/snippet. Most of my links don't have descriptions, and those that do are not very verbose. Tim -- Tim Larson West Corporation, Interactive TeleServices _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
