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Or you could just use URL tags. See "How to format your text".
The adding of spaces in the middle of a lengthy continuous string of characters (URL or otherwise), is a fairly standard anti-vandalism measure. Many sites use such a mechanism to prevent the site formatting from being broken by someone who falls asleep with their face on the keyboard.
As for why the forums don't automatically detect and wrap a long URL with the appropriate URL tags i.e. [url=click here]? Well, my understanding is that the whole site has been coded from the ground-up, and there are other issues with higher priority ahead of such niceties.
It's related to how word-wrapping is handled in web browsers. The simple version is that text that would be too long to fit on the current line gets moved down to the next line at the preceding space character. However, lets say the content area of a webpage (e.g. the area where the text of our posts shows up) is only 80-characters wide. If we then have 100 continuous characters with no breaks, there is no preceding space to wrap that text.
At that point, the web browser will instead expand that content area to accommodate the additional width. This then would make our posts windows (which are only supposed to take up a set amount of space) extend off the right-hand side of the screen, and people would start seeing horizontal scroll bars.
This isn't so bad when the content area for each post is self-contained, but on many older boards, all those posts would go into a single table column. On such site, that would cause everyone's posts to scroll off the right-hand side of the screen. Exploiting this was a time-honored tradition of many a troll, and a source of thermonuclear flaming for less technically adept users.
So yeah, that's why more modern sites break up lengthy strings of characters.
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The adding of spaces in the middle of a lengthy continuous string of characters (URL or otherwise), is a fairly standard anti-vandalism measure. Many sites use such a mechanism to prevent the site formatting from being broken by someone who falls asleep with their face on the keyboard.
As for why the forums don't automatically detect and wrap a long URL with the appropriate URL tags i.e. [url=click here]? Well, my understanding is that the whole site has been coded from the ground-up, and there are other issues with higher priority ahead of such niceties.
It serves as an anti-spam measure, as well. Spambots generally don't know how to use BBCode, so their URLs are prevented from linking up by this feature.
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That's pretty accurate.
Why cant the forums do that automatically? This is literally the first forum ive seen that doesnt do that, or screws up a URL by adding random spaces in the middle of it.
I, OTOH, have never seen a message board adding URL tags automatically.
It's not that hard to do yourself.
Why cant the forums do that automatically? This is literally the first forum ive seen that doesnt do that, or screws up a URL by adding random spaces in the middle of it.I, OTOH, have never seen a message board adding URL tags automatically.
It's not that hard to do yourself.
Indeed. And adding [url] tags to text is way more readable and aesthetically pleasing than raw URLs.
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A couple of things, Question.
1) You need http:// before the url, otherwise it tries linking to a page here on the paizo forums.
2) you actually have to put text between the ][
So your link would be like this
Yea i was hoping it would be able to display the URL instead of requiring additional text to "name" the URL...
Why? If you put descriptive text in there, it looks cleaner.
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You can always do it this way {url=url here}url here again{/url} if you really want it that way
http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qqrg?Forum-seems-unable-to-handle-long-URLs#15
Something like this.