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Aug 16 2007, 8:42 pm

Hiead

Applicable Configuration:
Operating System: Windows XP Home SP2
Web Browser: Firefox 2.0.0.6

Descriptive Problem Summary:
In the Recent Blog Posts section of http://members.byond.com, I've noticed a couple of minor "quirks" in the posts' summaries.

1. URLs seem to contain spaces following the '/' character separators. A URL such as http://byond.com/forum/index.cgi would probably display as "http:// byond.com/ forum/ index.cgi"

2. The new functionality for YouTube is neat, but in summaries it will still display as something such as "." It seems to me like this is undesirable; nobody's interested in seeing an incomprehensible series of characters that only matter to the YouTube web application; more preferable might be something such as "[YouTube video]" where the "" is located.

These aren't really large issues, but the first seems like a bug from my stand-point; the second is probably more of a BYOND Features-type of request, but I really didn't feel like separating content for that purpose (they both seem like quirks, and "quirks" seems to correlate better with "bugs" than to "features").

Hiead

Aug 17 2007, 1:58 am

Crispy

Hiead wrote:

1. URLs seem to contain spaces following the '/' character separators. A URL such as http://byond.com/forum/index.cgi would probably display as "http:// byond.com/ forum/ index.cgi"

I think that's a feature. It looks deliberate, and is probably done to allow the text to wrap so that the middle column won't get stretched.

2. The new functionality for YouTube is neat, but in summaries it will still display as something such as "." It seems to me like this is undesirable; nobody's interested in seeing an incomprehensible series of characters that only matter to the YouTube web application; more preferable might be something such as "[YouTube video]" where the "" is located.

Yeah, that would be nice. Though hardly urgent. =)

Aug 17 2007, 6:10 am In response to Crispy
Mike H	Crispy wrote: Hiead wrote: 1. URLs seem to contain spaces following the '/' character separators. A URL such as http://byond.com/forum/index.cgi would probably display as "http:// byond.com/ forum/ index.cgi" I think that's a feature. It looks deliberate, and is probably done to allow the text to wrap so that the middle column won't get stretched. Exactly.