Super long url's mess up pages in Firefox

[FBlue]

Lately every time someone releases a new track, sloop john b for reasons unknown feels the need to to add a google map link. I counted the number of letters in one of them and there was 218 in it. In the forums they get shrunk down and display properly. But in the download page it doesn't. Here is a link to the two pages to compare.

http://www.nogripracing.com/details.php?filenr=5877

http://www.nogripracing.com/forum/sh...ad.php?t=15153

I have included some pictures to show the problem, the last one shows it displayed in the forum link. I have found no way to fix this for firefox. Is there a way to either get this guy to use tiny url, use HTML coding or not do it all together? After all 218 letters in a row is far wider than any picture I have ever seen uploaded.

[w2sjw]

Originally Posted by FBlue

Lately every time someone releases a new track, sloop john b for reasons unknown feels the need to to add a google map link. I counted the number of letters in one of them and there was 218 in it. In the forums they get shrunk down and display properly. But in the download page it doesn't. Here is a link to the two pages to compare.

http://www.nogripracing.com/details.php?filenr=5877

http://www.nogripracing.com/forum/sh...ad.php?t=15153

I have included some pictures to show the problem, the last one shows it displayed in the forum link. I have found no way to fix this for firefox. Is there a way to either get this guy to use tiny url, use HTML coding or not do it all together? After all 218 letters in a row is far wider than any picture I have ever seen uploaded.

Yep - if he chooses a word or part of a sentence, like 'click here' and makes it a hyperlink, it should work (like I just did)

I'm testing it here on the last map link he posted...

[w2sjw]

Hot damn, it worked!

and I'm a die-hard FF user, and clicking on the link I made above worked flawlessly here in v2.0.0.7

[FBlue]

Originally Posted by w2sjw

Yep - if he chooses a word or part of a sentence, like 'click here' and makes it a hyperlink, it should work (like I just did)

I'm testing it here on the last map link he posted...

Yes it works every time......

[vrmx]

Originally Posted by FBlue

Is there a way to get this guy not do it all together?

We could always ban him .

But yes that is very annoying to post so long url's. I've actually deleted few of his messages containing only the long url.

[FBlue]

Originally Posted by vrmx

We could always ban him .

But yes that is very annoying to post so long url's. I've actually deleted few of his messages containing only the long url.

Yes ban him.

Ok you don't have to do that.

If he would only learn some html or use url shortener like this.

http://w3t.org/u/5co2

[gazman]

Originally Posted by FBlue

Yes ban him.

Ok you don't have to do that.

If he would only learn some html or use url shortener like this.

http://w3t.org/u/5co2

problem loading page

[Buckie]

This site will do it for you.
http://tinyurl.com/

[FBlue]

Originally Posted by gazman

problem loading page

Must be a problem in the routing, it still works for me.

[FBlue]

Originally Posted by Buckie

This site will do it for you.
http://tinyurl.com/

Meant to use that site. But when I googled I didn't see it. I got another one called tiny.cc and it sucked.

[Dan]

I'll add a filter to reduce the visible length of stupid long urls in the comments...

[FBlue]

Originally Posted by Dan

I'll add a filter to reduce the visible length of stupid long urls in the comments...

Thanks Dan I noticed your test post. Everything seems to be working fine.