Earlier today, I noticed that some of the commentary on my links got cut off. I came to find out that it happened between the time I posted the commentary using del.icio.us’s Firefox extension and the commit to the server.

Now, it makes sense for del.icio.us to limit the size of the data stored in the Notes field: data has to be stored, and you’ve got to scale. [That, and I'm sure spammers would fill it full of shit if they were granted the space.] But what I don’t get is why the FF extension doesn’t make that obvious to me: some Javascript to tell me how many characters I have left would be awesome. Knowing the constraints, I’ll omit unnecessary words.