Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (142 mails)

[Satoru Matsumoto <helios_reds@xxxxxxx>]

Rajko M. wrote:

> There is not tiniest reason to use them :-) 
> [http://extremely-3-rows-long-URL Description] 
> will give just Description on the screen.

That's right. However, as long as we use modern browsers like Firefox[1]
or Opera[2], we have a chance to confirm the destination URL by placing
the mouse cursor over the link before clicking. I don't know exactly
*all* modern browsers have such a feature or not, though.

[1] http://geeko.homelinux.org:20080/opensuse/misc/firefox_sample.jpg
[2] http://geeko.homelinux.org:20080/opensuse/misc/opera_sample.jpg

If we see the tinyurl in Twitter, blogs or e-mails, we can at least
confirm who posted it. But we usually don't mind who wrote the article
on the Wiki and are likely to trust that all links there are 'safe'.
Therefore, I think putting tinyurl on the everyone-editable Wiki page is
more dangerous than putting original URLs.

Best,

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