On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:02:27 +0200, Stanimir Stamenkov <[email protected]> in mozilla.support.seamonkey wrote:
>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:37:11 -0500, /art/: > >> When sending a hyperlink, SM2 treats the "/" character as a word break >> delimiter and subsequently wraps the link if it is longer than the plain >> text word wrap setting. Thus, the recipient may have to cut/paste/edit >> the link before using it instead of just clicking on it. > >The wrap is only visual. If you observe the source of the message >you'll see the link text is continuous. Copying and pasting it in a >simple plain text editor should also show the text is not broken. >The new wrapping behavior is in effect since Firefox 3.0/Gecko >1.9.0, if I'm not mistaken. Previously Mozilla wrapped text only at >white space which made tables containing such links expand too wide, >for example. Kudos! It is my understanding that all files are simply stored as a data string, including hard line breaks. However the application chooses to format that string into readable form is irrelevant to the source. So, what we should have is 'soft' line breaks based on the reading application 'wrapping to screen'. But.....we may have had hard line breaks inserted on wrap respected by a compatible reading system and if not respected those hard breaks mess up the URL -- or other intended long string -- or, if respected, will result in a broken link. Observationally, an easy way of checking in the case of a long URL is to send the visually wrapped string to yourself, receive it and then, if you have links shown in contrasting colors (mine are blue) note whether the multiple lines displayed all are that same contrasting color. Empirically, click the link and see if it resolves in fullness. On the other hand, you could just create a one short word hyperlink to the URL, which fixes nothing at all except that it hides it................... jim _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
