Hello Thomas, On Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 3:11:36 AM Thomas [TF] wrote:
TF> On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:47:25 -0400 GMT (24/04/2007, 23:47 +0700 GMT), TF> Robert Rainwater wrote: RR>> No, it doesn't work in Firefox. Firefox has to convert the url to a RR>> valid url before it makes the HTTP request RR>> (http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%ADa_Internacional_del_Libro). TF> Exactly: Firefox converts it, i.e. it works. RR>> I suspect IE does the same but it just doesn't display the RR>> conversion in the location bar. The only reason Firefox can RR>> convert it, is because it knows the only data allowed in the RR>> location bar is a URL. A text parser doesn't have the same luxury. TF> Well, the text parser does. How else would it highlight the URLs? You seem to think in the wrong direction. The text parser tries to find a URL and display it, while the Browser assumes everything given is the URL. So the browser can spend less effort in "finding where the URL ends" and concentrate on "convert as much as possible, as everything should be the URL". Given <SPACE> for example the browser can happily make "%20" out of it, while the text parser has to stop. TF> And even if you right-click on it, the context menu gives you the TF> choice "Open URL". Wow. That's one result of a text-processor that tried to *find* a URL. I for myself don't think it's bad if a text parser is not capable of recognizing all (bad) forms of a URL. There are rules how to encode a URL, so it contains only valid characters. This makes it easy for everybody else to know what the URL is and what surrounding text is. I really don't see a problem here, as long as TB!'s text parser recognizes all valid encoded URLs ... But that's maybe just me, thinking this way ... -- Regards Peter Palmreuther (The Bat! v3.99.3 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2) "Yesterday my doctor gave me a shock - He'd found blood in my alcohol!" ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.99.03 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
