good catch of the problem. I suffered when I read IETF email on the web. Would be great to see this fixed.
Lixia On Feb 15, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Stuart Cheshire wrote: > In the MHonArc mail archive there are often super-long lines, which would be > wrapped to the window width when viewing in most mail clients, but when > viewed in a web browser they appear as long single lines which take a lot of > left-to-right scrolling to read them. > > For example: > <http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/renum/current/msg00060.html> > > This appears to be due to MHonArc's use of the PRE tag, which tells the web > browser to display the literal text exactly as given, in a fixed-width font. > > The MHonArc FAQ suggests a couple of solutions to this problem: > >> Can long lines be wrapped in converted messages? > > <http://www.mhonarc.org/MHonArc/doc/faq/mime.html#lineclip> > >> Can the <PRE> tags be removed from converted messages? > > <http://www.mhonarc.org/MHonArc/doc/faq/mime.html#removepre> > > Can we consider using either of these options? > > Using "maxwidth=xxx" would solve this problem, though of course it opens the > debate about what's the right value for "xxx". > > Using "nonfixed" has the nice property of letting the web browser wrap the > text to the window width, but might break ASCII-art diagrams. Perhaps that > could be fixed by making the default font a fixed-width one (e.g. via style > sheet) and using the "keepspace" option, which would give us monospaced text > while still allowing the web browser to wrap the text to the current window > width. > > Stuart Cheshire <[email protected]> > * Wizard Without Portfolio, Apple Inc. > * www.stuartcheshire.org > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
