Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Michael J. Walsh michaelj.walsh@oceanfree.net wrote:
What about programming the software to replace " » " in links with "/" before submitting to the database or previewing the page.
More pre-save transforms? We should probably be reducing the number, not increasing them. This one has more merit than pipe tricks, though. It's a possibility. It would probably be simpler to do the 301, though.
If not a PST, it would pretty much have to be done in title normalization. For one thing, we'd need it for link existence checks.
But I have a simpler suggestion: why not display the title just like we do now, but use CSS to add some padding around the slashes and to render everything up to the last slash in smaller font on a separate line? Should be easy enough to do with just a couple of simple <span> tags, and be perfectly cut-and-pasteable. Granted, it means sticking with "/" as the delimiter instead of "»", but I wouldn't think that'd be a blocking issue.