Opera feature request: show actual link in toolbar/tooltip instead of redirect
Thursday, 19. March 2009, 00:02:17
Services like tinyurl are becoming more and more popular, especially for sites like twitter. It has always been advantageous to be able to see the link destination in the toolbar (or for modern browsers, like Opera, in a tooltip) so that the user could decide whether to follow the link or not. Now, when tinyurl, ping.fm, is.gd or bit.ly is used the user cannot know the link destination without actually visiting the link.
Feature request: for well-known forwarding services I propose that the Opera browser follow the link to find the destination and then display this in the tooltip (or toolbar if the user still uses such an UI device in a browser, seriously, move on, this is 2009, use the tooltip, and yeah, Safari I'm lookin at you too). It may be the case that multiple redirects are in use. I leave resolving that problem to other minds, but resolving one level of redirect should be enough for most instances.
Feature request: for well-known forwarding services I propose that the Opera browser follow the link to find the destination and then display this in the tooltip (or toolbar if the user still uses such an UI device in a browser, seriously, move on, this is 2009, use the tooltip, and yeah, Safari I'm lookin at you too). It may be the case that multiple redirects are in use. I leave resolving that problem to other minds, but resolving one level of redirect should be enough for most instances.



