From: Francis Hwang <sera@...>
Date: 2005-03-11T10:19:23+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Tiny URLs


On Mar 10, 2005, at 10:29 AM, Lee Braiden wrote:

> I would rather people just use HTML links properly, so that you see 
> the label
> instead of the underlying URL.  Doesn't work too well for plain text 
> email,
> but no one said email looks as nice as a webpage anyway :)

Well, I can't say I've ever actually seen these used in web pages 
anyway. It's almost exclusively for contexts where a long URL make 
break, which is mostly email. (Maybe chat, but all the chat clients 
I've seen handle long URLs quite well.)

And HTML email has all sorts of complications to it, too.

Francis Hwang
http://fhwang.net/