I guess because we're in a strange half and half world. URLs (like HTML markup) are often readable enough that you paste them in without making an "a" tag[1], and that's useful so you can see what they are, and see them in raw html comment notifications, etc. But not *guaranteed* to be, they can legitimately be complicated enough that a proper editor is necessary[2], so you can't rule out *all* long URLs, just gratuitous ones.
[1] I'm glad your example wasn't turned into a link :) [2] Woo, go http://tinyurl.com/u :)
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Date: 2007-07-31 04:58 pm (UTC)I guess because we're in a strange half and half world. URLs (like HTML markup) are often readable enough that you paste them in without making an "a" tag[1], and that's useful so you can see what they are, and see them in raw html comment notifications, etc. But not *guaranteed* to be, they can legitimately be complicated enough that a proper editor is necessary[2], so you can't rule out *all* long URLs, just gratuitous ones.
[1] I'm glad your example wasn't turned into a link :)
[2] Woo, go http://tinyurl.com/u :)