butterfly 2 and the velocity

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I had to learn how you guys post clickable links. This is not a reply. Can that be done on e-mails too (hotmail?)

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"clickable" links mainly pertain to graphical user interface versions of web browsing (or similar) software. Some software is text-based and does not require the use of a mouse, yet the links are still "followable". I propose use of the terms "follow this link" and "followable links" instead of "click on this link" and "clickable links".

Whether any piece of software makes a followable link out of a URL depends upon standard conventions being used in the first place or upon the software designers allowing standard conventions to be either disregarded or augmented (I'm thinking primarily of Microsoft with that one because of their long history of doing both, to the detriment of society in general).

A "legal" URL consists of the communication protocol to be used, followed by a colon and two forward slashes, then the fully-qualified domain name of the host providing the service followed by another forward slash, and finally the full pathway to the desired resource at that host in Unix directory-structure notation (forward slashes). [A default item (such as /index.html) is usually available if/when the URL is terminated by just the host name.]

A "URL" is not really a URL if it's missing any of those components. As it turns out, the convention of naming a host to correspond to the service it will provide can often allow one to imply the protocol to use when (later) forming a URL using that host name, such as ftp.somedomain.com or www.somedomain.com ( let's see what this site software does with those -- I bet it'll make a link to http://www.somedomain.com/ out of the second, but doubt it'll turn the first into ftp://ftp.somedomain.com/ ). [further: note that when I merely typed in unambiguous ("legal") URLs as was done for those last two, the software makes correct links of them -- refer back to my second paragraph above]

As you see, this site software second-guesses the intended purpose of a would-be URL and forms a followable version on it's own initiative. (Note that it would have been wrong if what I'd really intended was ftp://www.somedomain.com/, which is why it's so important to deal with "legal" URLs) If you look at the source of these posts (by "quoting" one of them) you'll see the full form the software uses as input to create a link when it ultimately generates a page for a viewer. Using that information, for this (and most other forum software?) you can create a link represented by alternate text, such as hey, follow me! (this is the only "link" I've created in this post by manually using the full forum software notation, all the others, if you "quote" this to see, were provided "automagically" by it). I'd show you exactly how to do that without making you "quote" this message, but the HTML code entry is currently disabled here. Talk to Mark...

In terms of email, it's usually a safe bet that if you provide a "legal" URL (one with all its components), the other person will be able to "follow" it. Leave any part of the URL out and it's a crap-shoot.

If I've made any of this sound not simple, it's strictly a fault on my part.

Glen
 
Peter, heres a pic of the harness. There should be plastic covering the lower section of stictching. The older ones had no plastic covering and wasn't really a problem.

Anyway thats why it was the last one on the shelf and I got it for only 100 quid. Let me know if you still want it.
 

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