add short-and-sweet as a separate desideratum from cut-and-pasteable

[Imported from Trac: page NewCapDesign, version 6]
zooko 2009-08-24 16:17:16 +00:00
parent 2a4ebfa69c
commit 0adb8963f5

@ -45,6 +45,12 @@ established sense). To make them real, we need to:
## other features
* Short and not so ugly. This is important to enable cut-and-paste (see
below), but also just because people are suspicious and averse to long
and ugly URLs. See #217 for notes in which dozens of people have
spontaneously complained about the current URLs. By contrast, tiny
URLs such as tinyurl.com, bit.ly, etc. are ubiquitous nowadays; users
have no problem with those -- see Twitter.
* Enable convenient cut-and-paste. If caps are too long they'll wrap in
email. If they contain lots of word-breaking characters then you have to
drag after you've double clicked (this is probably ok). If the word-broken