Doug - this is a good informative reply, but it begs the question as to why members of a mail (i.e., Text exchange) list would want to have HTML or XHTML in any way associated with the exchanges. In other words, Dave should turn off the bloody fancy stuff and if his email server won't let him, then good manners would suggest he either go away quietly or find a different server.
Stan > From: "Doug Franklin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 22:52:50 -0500 > To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Englarging Lens Question > > On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:51:42 +0100, Frantisek Vlcek wrote: > >> I think the excite >> interface does something to line breaks? Perhaps you shouldn't use >> enter (carriage return character) at all, as the excite inserts at >> every CR this <br />. It looks like corrupted HTML tag of <br> (which >> means linebreak). Stupid excite, can't do html properly :) > > It's pseudo-XHTML-formatted mail. They code the break tags that way so > that both HTML and XHTML browsers will render it properly. XHTML > requires that all tags be closed and that format is a "shorthand" > notation for <BR></BR> that's specified in the XHTML standards. XHTML > is an updated HTML based on XML. They're leaving quite a few tags off, > though, hoping the viewing program will infer that it should be doing > (X)HTML formatting. > > TTYL, DougF > > TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ > - - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
