[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 187

[Jack Henahan]

Whoops, forgot to Reply All.

My solution for the '[0] with a link far down the page' issue is just to search for '[0]'. Then it brings me to the link, I can open it if I like, and then I just search again for '[0]' and it brings me back to the context. It's imperfect and requires wraparound search, but it works (assuming they don't just have '[0]' scattered all over the place). I agree in principle, though. I just wish I could get my mail client to render Markdown as HTML. That'd make things so much nicer.

On Jun 23, 2011, at 5:26 PM, Albert Y. C. Lai wrote:

> Picky readers we are.
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> I don't mind URL length. And there are ways to have long URLs in-situ without being a big disruption.
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> I hate the borrowed academic practice of saying [0] and giving the URL two hundred lines later. It worked great on paper in hands because I could stick my finger to the paper to remember where to return. It also works great on real HTML documents because browsers have a "back" button for the same. It completely fails in plain text email because I can't stick a finger and I can't press the "back" button. Which one is the bigger disruption: an in-situ long URL that makes me skip oh two lines to continue with the main text? or the URL postponed by two hundred lines so I have to first remember it is [1] not [0] this time, then scroll down several pages to hunt for the URL, and then... I forget where to return to?
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> If people want short URLs, I don't mind that either, but I'm picky on how they are shortened. The shortener should offer the option of showing me the original URL and waiting for me to go ahead or abort. As far as I know this means tinyurl.com only.
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> Thank you for bearing with my rant.
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