Timeline for Ban URL shortening services
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| Dec 15, 2013 at 1:56 | comment | added | Palec | @Pops I don’t think so. IIRC the browsers only used to display the escape sequences in location bar those days. Now they display them decoded (while internally still using the encoded version). But I must admit a have just a little experience with browsers other than Firefox. | |
| Dec 14, 2013 at 22:35 | comment | added | Pops Staff | @Palec Good point about the terminology, I fixed it. Not sure what was going on regarding your second question; maybe things worked differently three years ago? | |
| Dec 14, 2013 at 18:40 | comment | added | Palec |
@Pops Technically %29 has nothing to do with HTML, it is URL escape sequence. When copy-pasting addresses from Firefox location bar, the parentheses are already URL-encoded. Do the literal parentheses pop up in any other case than manually typing the URL?
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| Sep 14, 2010 at 21:51 | comment | added | Pops | @Null, no, I'm not suggesting that. I haven't even memorized it myself, even though I've seen that trick documented multiple times before and I like that link syntax. It took me five tries to get it right so that I could write that comment. I wouldn't have mentioned it, except that you used the word "impossible" instead of "very annoying"; technically, it's not impossible, and I thought people should know. | |
| Sep 14, 2010 at 19:51 | history | edited | badp | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
Changing my vote
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| Sep 14, 2010 at 19:07 | comment | added | Arjan | As an aside: for an overview of different ways to add URLs that contain parentheses, and which of those are currently broken in the preview, see Links to URLs containing parentheses | |
| Sep 14, 2010 at 18:00 | comment | added | Arjan | And links that might work today, might not have worked in the past. Likewise, how can we be sure no bug will ever keep one from posting a working link? In the rare cases that I did use a URL shortener, it was always because of some Markdown rendering issues. | |
| Sep 14, 2010 at 16:48 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | @null no, just use one of the other five different ways (other than bare cut and paste) to include URLs, which work fine with parens. See meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help | |
| Sep 14, 2010 at 16:48 | comment | added | Time Traveling Bobby | I'm aware that this is useful for comments, that's why I included mainly answers/questions in my request. Though, that problem with the wiki-link should be reported as bug, imho. | |
| Sep 14, 2010 at 16:44 | comment | added | NullUserException อ_อ | @Popular So I should start memorizing html entity codes? | |
| Sep 14, 2010 at 16:20 | comment | added | Peter Ajtai | @NullUserException - I deleted my comment, since I found the reason why URL shortening is useful in comments <== I cannot include that URL w/o shortening. | |
| Sep 14, 2010 at 16:17 | comment | added | Pops |
Works [just fine](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closure_(computer_science%29) when you replace the last parenthesis in the URL with the escape sequence %29.
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| Sep 14, 2010 at 15:16 | comment | added | NullUserException อ_อ | @Peter See example | |
| Sep 14, 2010 at 15:12 | history | answered | NullUserException อ_อ | CC BY-SA 2.5 |