[thelist] news.com article on browsers and mainstream sites etc..

Ben Dyer ben_dyer at imaginuity.com
Tue Jul 16 12:50:01 CDT 2002


At 12:28 PM 7/16/2002, you wrote:
>i actually don't like them for a few reasons:
>
>- i can't see where the link is going...  i don't trust all links, and
>there have been a few here on the list where i wasted my time on
>links i had already visited that i would have known had i seen the
>full URL...

Well, couldn't these places just append the domain name at the
beginning?  They could cheat, this works fine (try it):

<http://news.com@shorl.com/dubulafiduvi>

Then you know the site is from news.com but the URL goes to the short place.

Just an exercise in wondering out loud.

--Ben


Ben Dyer, Senior Internet Developer, Imaginuity Interactive
http://www.imaginuity.com/

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