[thelist] Creating a software box in PhotoShop
William Anderson
thelist at lists.evolt.org
Thu Nov 7 07:52:01 2002
Madhu Menon wrote:
> At 03:23 AM 07-11-02, Taranis wrote:
> > You might try this [careful of wrap]:
> > http://share.studio.adobe.com/axAssetDetailSubmit.asp?aID=3704&back=http
> > %3A%2F%2Fshare%2Estudio%2Eadobe%2Ecom%2FaxBrowseSubmit%2Easp%3Fc%3D35
>
> It is for times like these that services like TinyURL were created. That
> leads me to my tip:
the killer is, the URL could have been deamazonised [1] thusly:
http://share.studio.adobe.com/axAssetDetailSubmit.asp?aID=3704
the extra crap is just an attempt to make the page stateful with the
browsing session it was captured from.
[1] a process i've coined whereby you strip the extraneous crap from a URL
to make it as short as possible without losing any core functionality beyond
'access the relevant web page' cf
http://neuro.me.uk/blog/archive/2002_09_01_blog.html#85410670
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