Long Web address problem

Example of the problem caused by long Web addresses on the Global Collaborative

• The text on this page disappears of the right hand side of the screen.
• This is intentional.
• This is a page specifically crafted to demonstrate a problem.
  

This page has been created specifically to demonstrate the problem that a long Web address causes on the Global Collaborative.  It is not intended to be informative in any way at all.  It is a companion page to the discussion of the problem and some possible work-arounds.

On the Global Collaborative, long Web addresses can cause particular problems.  The Global Collaborative doesn't not wrap long Web addresses well. This means that if you include a particularly long Web address as text on a page, it will force all the text to disappear off the right hand side of the page.  And it doesn't even allow you to scroll sideways, which is a real problem.

An example of an address that might cause a problem

http://www.globalcollab.org/Nautilus/internal/nautilus-teams/nodal-teams/communication-team-com/what-culture-would-you-like-to-experience-at-nautilus/archive/2008/01/14/departmental-tension