Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-06 Thread Jos Klaassens
Hello MFPA, Sunday, September 6, 2009, 2:14:40 AM, you wrote: M Yahoo's webmail interface (classic rather than the one with the M extra annoying features) does even worse: the link ends with M Echelon_ and the whole of (signals_intelligence) sits immediately M after it in normal text.

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-06 Thread MFPA
Hi On Sunday 6 September 2009 at 8:08:23 AM, in mid:1124955533.20090906090...@tiscali.nl, Jos Klaassens wrote: M Yahoo's webmail interface (classic rather than the M one with the extra annoying features) does even M worse: the link ends with Echelon_ and the whole M of (signals_intelligence)

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-06 Thread MFPA
Hi On Sunday 6 September 2009 at 12:44:12 AM, in mid:819549211.20090906064...@thomas-bkk.my-fqdn.de, Thomas Fernandez wrote: Of course it's fixable. I'm told Thunderbird 3.0b4 manages to include the closing bracket as part of the link. -- Best regards MFPA

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-06 Thread Jos Klaassens
Hello MFPA, Sunday, September 6, 2009, 12:16:54 PM, you wrote: M Yahoo's webmail interface (classic rather than the M one with the extra annoying features) does even M worse: the link ends with Echelon_ and the whole M of (signals_intelligence) sits immediately after M it in normal text.

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-06 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello MFPA, On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 11:22:58 +0100 GMT (06/Sep/09, 17:22 PM +0700 GMT), MFPA wrote: Of course it's fixable. M I'm told Thunderbird 3.0b4 manages to include the closing bracket as M part of the link. I didn't know that, but thanks for confirming my logic. -- Cheers, Thomas.

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-06 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello MFPA, On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 01:14:40 +0100 GMT (06/Sep/09, 7:14 AM +0700 GMT), MFPA wrote: It's not an excuse to not fix a bug if any other application has the same bug. In fact, if all other applications have the same bug, Ritlabs should race to be the first one to fix it. From a

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-06 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello MFPA, On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 02:00:25 +0100 GMT (06/Sep/09, 8:00 AM +0700 GMT), MFPA wrote: Of course it's fixable. The algorithms to pair parenthesis are out there, many softwares do that and even colour-code the left and right parenthesis in nested code, so that it is easier to see which

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-06 Thread MFPA
Hi On Sunday 6 September 2009 at 2:50:28 PM, in mid:956675579.20090906205...@thomas-bkk.my-fqdn.de, Thomas Fernandez wrote: Any applications that do it even worse cannot be used as a benchmark. But thans for the info, I would have indeed expected better from Yahoo. OTOH (and I have not

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-06 Thread Bill McQuillan
On Sun, 2009-09-06, Thomas Fernandez wrote: On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 11:22:58 +0100 GMT (06/Sep/09, 17:22 PM +0700 GMT), MFPA wrote: Of course it's fixable. M I'm told Thunderbird 3.0b4 manages to include the closing bracket as M part of the link. I didn't know that, but thanks for confirming my

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-06 Thread MFPA
Hi On Sunday 6 September 2009 at 11:32:25 PM, in mid:1256772869.20090906153...@pobox.com, Bill McQuillan wrote: Although I do not remember seeing any instances of a URL enclosed in Parentheses, I have definitely seen it in letters Word documents occasionally:- Our website

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-06 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello MFPA, On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 01:01:00 +0100 GMT (07/Sep/09, 7:01 AM +0700 GMT), MFPA wrote: http://example.com/ends-with-(parens) both the MicroEd and Windows editors do not highlight the final Parentheses. M Confirmed. The HTML editor does, though.. However if I use the same URL in

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-05 Thread Bill McQuillan
On Fri, 2009-09-04, Thomas Fernandez wrote: On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 22:25:28 +0100 GMT (05/Sep/09, 4:25 AM +0700 GMT), MFPA wrote: M I just noticed when including the following URL in a message:- M http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echelon_(signals_intelligence) M that TB! does not treat the closing

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-05 Thread Jos Klaassens
Hello MFPA, Friday, September 4, 2009, 11:25:28 PM, you wrote: M I just noticed when including the following URL in a message:- M http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echelon_(signals_intelligence) M that TB! does not treat the closing bracket as part of the link. Probably not a TB! issue? After

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-05 Thread MFPA
Hi On Saturday 5 September 2009 at 9:11:53 AM, in mid:591365848.20090905101...@tiscali.nl, Jos Klaassens wrote: Probably not a TB! issue? After pasting this URL, including the closing bracket :) , into OpenOffice Writer same result here with Writer. Interesting. Same result here in MS

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-05 Thread MFPA
Hi On Saturday 5 September 2009 at 7:20:22 AM, in mid:1853742792.20090904232...@pobox.com, Bill McQuillan wrote: On Fri, 2009-09-04, Thomas Fernandez wrote: On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 22:25:28 +0100 GMT (05/Sep/09, 4:25 AM +0700 GMT), MFPA wrote: M I just noticed when including the following URL

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-05 Thread MFPA
Hi On Saturday 5 September 2009 at 1:56:12 PM, in mid:482957195.20090905075...@charter.net, Jack S. LaRosa wrote: I suspect I'm missing the whole point of this thread here and should probably keep my big mouth out of it but curiously, when you click on the (complete) link, it takes you to

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-05 Thread Jack S. LaRosa
Hello MFPA, M Hi M I just noticed when including the following URL in a message:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echelon_(signals_intelligence) M that TB! does not treat the closing bracket as part of the link. M I'm using MicroEd, in case it makes a difference. I'm not sure what's going on

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-05 Thread Jos Klaassens
Hello MFPA, Saturday, September 5, 2009, 3:36:24 PM, you wrote: M On Saturday 5 September 2009 at 9:11:53 AM, in M mid:591365848.20090905101...@tiscali.nl, Jos Klaassens wrote: Probably not a TB! issue? After pasting this URL, including the closing bracket :) , into OpenOffice Writer same

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-05 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Jos, On Sat, 5 Sep 2009 17:18:59 +0200 GMT (05/Sep/09, 22:18 PM +0700 GMT), Jos Klaassens wrote: M Interesting. Same result here in MS Word 2002. M Not sure that means it's not a TB! issue, though. An issue with a M software application doesn't *have* to be ignored just because there M

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-05 Thread Bill McQuillan
On Sat, 2009-09-05, Jos Klaassens wrote: Hello Thomas, Saturday, September 5, 2009, 5:44:06 PM, you wrote: TF It's not an excuse to not fix a bug if any other application has the TF same bug. In fact, if all other applications have the same bug, TF Ritlabs should race to be the first one to

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-05 Thread Jos Klaassens
Hello Thomas, Saturday, September 5, 2009, 5:44:06 PM, you wrote: TF It's not an excuse to not fix a bug if any other application has the TF same bug. In fact, if all other applications have the same bug, TF Ritlabs should race to be the first one to fix it. TF From a practical POV, it's simply

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-05 Thread Jos Klaassens
Hello Bill, Saturday, September 5, 2009, 6:57:49 PM, you wrote: BM Well, I checked the RFCs for URLs and Right Parenthesis is a valid BM character in this position, so I have reported it in the Bug Tracker: BM https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/view.php?id=7709 Fixable? See

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-05 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Jos, On Sat, 5 Sep 2009 21:26:22 +0200 GMT (06/Sep/09, 2:26 AM +0700 GMT), Jos Klaassens wrote: BM Well, I checked the RFCs for URLs and Right Parenthesis is a valid BM character in this position, so I have reported it in the Bug Tracker: BM https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/view.php?id=7709

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-05 Thread MFPA
Hi On Saturday 5 September 2009 at 4:44:06 PM, in mid:132137587.20090905224...@thomas-bkk.my-fqdn.de, Thomas Fernandez wrote: Hello Jos, On Sat, 5 Sep 2009 17:18:59 +0200 GMT (05/Sep/09, 22:18 PM +0700 GMT), Jos Klaassens wrote: M Interesting. Same result here in MS Word 2002. M Not sure

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-05 Thread MFPA
Hi On Saturday 5 September 2009 at 8:26:22 PM, in mid:1577927151.20090905212...@tiscali.nl, Jos Klaassens wrote: Hello Bill, Saturday, September 5, 2009, 6:57:49 PM, you wrote: BM Well, I checked the RFCs for URLs and Right BM Parenthesis is a valid character in this position, BM so I have

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-05 Thread MFPA
Hi On Sunday 6 September 2009 at 12:44:12 AM, in mid:819549211.20090906064...@thomas-bkk.my-fqdn.de, Thomas Fernandez wrote: Of course it's fixable. The algorithms to pair parenthesis are out there, many softwares do that and even colour-code the left and right parenthesis in nested code,

If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-04 Thread MFPA
Hi I just noticed when including the following URL in a message:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echelon_(signals_intelligence) that TB! does not treat the closing bracket as part of the link. I'm using MicroEd, in case it makes a difference. -- Best regards MFPA If

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-04 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello MFPA, On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 22:25:28 +0100 GMT (05/Sep/09, 4:25 AM +0700 GMT), MFPA wrote: M I just noticed when including the following URL in a message:- M http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echelon_(signals_intelligence) M that TB! does not treat the closing bracket as part of the link. M I'm