274790 - auto parsing of long url's [bookmarklet]

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)

Description

[toblin177]

Whenever I get to a page on a bb where someone has posted a very long url I have
to use the lower slide bar in order to read the full post.  Some others who use
Firefox report the same problem while most do not.  It's a real pain. 
see: http://www.edodo.org/rumormill/viewtopic.php?p=172902&highlight=#172902

Thx.

Comment 1

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

I guess this is saying that we want punctuation characters to be able to cause
word wrap if not doing so would cause the word to expand a table containing
block. Not sure how we can decently do this.

Comment 2

[Chris Thomas (CTho) [formerly [e-mail] [e-mail]]]

I just wrote a bookmarklet (in response to this bug) that takes any link longer
than 70 characters, and if the target of the link matches the link text (i.e.
the usual case with lazy people on forum) it chops out the middle and replaces
it with "..."  I had to add the "document.body.innerHTML" stuff at the end to
get the width to be recalculated - it's a hack, but it works, and even on huge
pages it isn't too slow.

javascript:(function(){ var k,x,t; for(k=0;x=document.links[k];k++) {  if
(x.innerHTML.length < 70) continue;  t=x.innerHTML.replace(/&amp;/g,'&');  if
(x.href == t)   x.innerHTML = x.innerHTML.substring(0,
30)+"..."+x.innerHTML.substring(x.innerHTML.length-30, x.innerHTML.length); }
document.body.innerHTML = document.body.innerHTML})();

Jesse, do you want to add this to your collection at squarefree.com?

Comment 3

[Jason Bassford]

Nothing was actually checked into Mozilla code that I can see.

-> WORKSFORME.