Open Mithgol opened 8 years ago
Note that this extension does support inputting urls in the form /ipfs/Qme3pKkedCfcebDmkZz5tU2suMjHP4EPi29NMNNxQrQzwy/done
. You just have to click the "Allow access to file URLs" option on the chrome://extensions page
The results of the discussion ipfs/go-ipfs#1678 seem to be the fs:/ipfs/...
form, and thus I'll rename.
URLs in form
ipfs:Qme3pKkedCfcebDmkZz5tU2suMjHP4EPi29NMNNxQrQzwy/done
seem useful because they are relatively short (51 characters plus the length of the path such as/done
).For example, they won't be broken in the middle to be forcibly wrapped to the next line on a traditional (80 characters per line) terminal unless the path (after the hash) exceeds ≈28 characters. That's at least twice as good as the old 8.3 character limit.
They are also less likely to cause horizontal scrollbars in modern editors or HTML textareas.
Unfortunately, such short URLs are supported, as far as I can tell, only by the addon for Firefox.
Would this Chrome extension also support them? (In addition to the support of current
http://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/
URLs are 23 characters longer thanipfs:
.)