319986 - Email Page Location as TinyURL or BabyURL

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Seth Dolman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Camino/1.0b1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Camino/1.0b1

When emailing the page location (opening a new message window in the email program with the URL in the message body), it is often useful to have the URL passed through a abbreviating service such as TinyURL.com or BabyURL.com.  A similar functionality should be built into Camino for long URLs.

I understand that you can use http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url= as your URL and you get back just the tinyurl, and this might be useful for including this feature

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Use email page location function.
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Actual Results:  
Mail message window opens with page URL in message body.

Expected Results:  
A very long page URL should be abbreviated for easy emailing.

Comment 1

[Stuart Morgan]

Making a standard Camino feature dependent on a 3rd-party service that may or may not continue to exist/be free/keep the same API doesn't seem like a terribly good idea.

Comment 2

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

I agree with Stuart. We've said this same thing in previous bugs on other topics (del.icio.us integration for example).

WONTFIXing...

Comment 3

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

For what it's worth, it should be fairly trivial to write a JavaScript bookmarklet that does this. Hit the Camino forum at Mozillazine and ask this question over there.

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=12

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