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Is there a technical problem - apart from readability - that web names should be no longer than 10 chars? German words are so long, cobined words .....

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TWiki version: TWikiRelease01Feb2003
TWiki plugins: DefaultPlugin, EmptyPlugin, InterwikiPlugin
Server OS: Linux
Web server: Apache
Perl version: 5.6.1
Client OS: Mac OS X 10.3.2
Web Browser: Safari 1.1

-- MarcusKabele - 30 Jan 2004

Answer

There is no technical problem per se, however long web names

  • might confuse your skin layout (depending on the skin used)
  • will result in long URL, which is typically a problem if sent by e-mail (specially Outlook which stubbornly cuts long URLs in half)

-- PeterThoeny - 30 Jan 2004

Topic revision: r2 - 2004-01-30 - PeterThoeny
 
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