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They are most likely putting the bitly links in parenthesis so that the story can be printed as is.
by jhawk28 15y ago
They are most likely putting the bitly links in parenthesis so that the story can be printed as is.
- w1ntermute 15y agoGiven their relative Ludditeness I'm not surprised they didn't think of it, but it is possible to dynamically generate the right type of (hyper)text based on the target medium.
- pavel_lishin 15y agoThey could have their cake, and link to it, too, by specifying a print-only stylesheet. [span class="screen"][a href="http://news/story]As http://news/story]As the Boston Globe reports[/a][/span] [span class="print"]As the Boston Globe reports ([a href="http://news/story]http://news/story[/a])[/span] http://news/story]http://news/story[/a])[/span] And then hide span.print in browsers, and vice versa for print. edit: okay, I have no idea how formatting here works, sorry for the ugly links.
- epochwolf 15y agoDirect link for your convince: http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc Found it in the faq, enjoy. :)
- pavel_lishin 15y agoYeah, I saw that - the only real good option I saw was prefixing the HTML with the four spaces, but that would make the line unwrapped, long, etc... Sometimes HN's minimalism works great, and sometimes it's like trying to hammer a nail with a screwdriver.
- BrandonM 15y agoWhat's wrong with this? <span class="screen"> <a href="http://news/story">As the Boston Globe reports</a> </span> <span class="print"> As the Boston Globe reports (<a href="http://news/story">http://news/story</a>) </span>
- astrodust 15y agoOf all the things they use, bitly is their choice? Idiotic. How hard is it for them to pick up the phone and get their own short domain service so that their news postings won't become useless if, for instance, Libya decides to can the bit.ly domain?
- ramy_d 15y agoExactly, for crying out loud their domain is http://ap.org http://ap.org and they couldn't figure to do http://ap.org/l/pDHZ6h http://ap.org/l/pDHZ6h how ridiculous.
- k33l0r 15y agoHell, they could have just subscribed to bit.ly's Pro or Enterprise service and used their own domain... Unless AP has some sort of agreement with bit.ly, this would seem to be a pretty big win for bit.ly. Lots of new visibility.