Indeed. There's been something like this on dailykos for ages. It works fine. -j On 13/07/06 10:10 -0700, Chris Schults wrote: > Break things? This is how it should work ... > > STEP 1: User posts very long url > > Blah blah blah > > http://www.domain.com/iamaverylonglinkthatneedstobetruncated > > More blah blah > > STEP 2: Function adds anchor tags > > Blah blah blah > > <a > href="http://www.domain.com/iamaverylonglinkthatneedstobetruncated">http://w > ww.domain.com/iamaverylonglinkthatneedstobetruncated</a> > > More blah blah > > STEP 3: Function truncates display URL while retaining original URL within > anchor tags > > Blah blah blah > > <a > href="http://www.domain.com/iamaverylonglinkthatneedstobetruncated">http://w > ww.domain.com/iamaverylonglink...</a> > > More blah blah > > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Lockwood [mailto:wsl3 at lrsehosting.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 9:05 AM > To: 'Chris Schults' > Subject: RE: [Scoop-help] Truncating long URLs > > The only real problem I see, is that it's going to break things. If you > don't mind that it will break anything it truncates, then why not? I'd like > to eventually see something that says, "Sorry, your UrL is too log. Try > putting it in an anchor tag, please." but that obviously is going to require > a fairly non-simple change to scoops comment code. :-) > > _______________________________________________ > Scoop-help mailing list > Scoop-help at lists.kuro5hin.org > http://lists.kuro5hin.org/mailman/listinfo/scoop-help > -- ---------------------------------------------- /* You are not expected to understand this. */ Captain_Tenille http://www.satanosphere.com/ http://www.kuro5hin.org/ jeremy at satanosphere.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://lists.kuro5hin.org/pipermail/scoop-help/attachments/20060713/c78f03f0/attachment.bin