Why do you think that the Chatterbox is slow? What reasons do you have to convince us that we should deactivate the Chatterbox nodelet?

Why do you think KISS and Occam's Razor is an evil node, written by an evildoer? I subcribe to the Occam's Razor school of thought. Hell, I even programmed in Occam for a transputer in a previous life.

Maybe the external web references in that other node could have been formed using the [http://url|title of web page] method, but I'm not too fussed about that. Hell, a few months ago, a bug in Perl Monks' HTML met a bug in Mozilla and pages suddenly because tens of thousands of pixels wide. Stuff happens, deal with it.

For these reasons and more, I downvoted your node.

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Another thing. I don't think the Freshmeat solution is a good one. It fails the print test (print the page and the information is useless). A better alternative would be to break long URLs automatically. Once upon a time, you could do such a thing in Netscape with the <wbr> tag, which would signal an optional word break. Perform a $url =~ s{/}{/<wbr>}g and you're set.

Unfortunately, when the W3C got around to standardising HTML 4.0, in their infinite fooli^Wwisdom they refused to put it in the spec. Too bad. Hyphenation and justification (H&J) is really badly done on the web. Without the hint of something like <wbr> there is no way to deal with this elegantly.

The real issue is not that long URLs are bad, it's just that browsers suck.

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