Large URLs

[alfred3x]

Hi All:

I recently was directed to an entry in troutgirl's blog. This may be a pretty infamous entry as it relates to Friendster moving to PHP from PHP. In any event, I was little infuriated (is it possible to be "a little" infuriated?) that the page format spilled off the browser page, and forced me to scroll horizontally.

I checked on IE (I use Firefox as my default) and sure enough it didn't do that. After a little while I noticed that the other pages rendered properly in both IE and Firefox. I went back to the PHP/Java page and found a long URL at the bottom of the page. It wasn't a link, it was just a URL someone had typed in as part of their comment. It turns out Firefox won't break a word, but IE will when there are special characters.

OK, so this may not be a true "bug" of Serendipity, but I think it ought to be addressed. Perhaps we could have an option somewhere which would specify whether Serendipity is allowed to break long URL's/words?

Just a thought...

Also, my apologies for being infuriated out of hand like that. I'm working on it.

- AAA

[garvinhicking]

Well, quite for a long time we offer BBCode, Textile and Wiki markup in comments which can transfer URLs to a realm clickable anchor, so it won't break the format.

Sadly, troutgirls blog isn't updated to that version or doesn't have that option enabled.