Hello Peter, On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:12:58 +0200 GMT (25/04/2007, 20:12 +0700 GMT), Peter Palmreuther wrote:
TF>> Well, the text parser does. How else would it highlight the URLs? PP> You seem to think in the wrong direction. The text parser tries to PP> find a URL and display it, while the Browser assumes everything given PP> is the URL. So the browser can spend less effort in "finding where the PP> URL ends" and concentrate on "convert as much as possible, as PP> everything should be the URL". Given <SPACE> for example the browser PP> can happily make "%20" out of it, while the text parser has to stop. I understand that the text parser cannot automatically know where the URL ends. Suggestions have already been posted. But the text parser identifies the URL, as you know, by the prefix http://_followed_by_something. There is no reason to stop highlighting at high-ASCII characters, unlike a space where the text parser really connaot know whether this belongs to the URL. TF>> And even if you right-click on it, the context menu gives you the TF>> choice "Open URL". Wow. PP> That's one result of a text-processor that tried to *find* a URL. See above. You can also use another prefix, like ftp://foo. PP> I for myself don't think it's bad if a text parser is not capable of PP> recognizing all (bad) forms of a URL. There are rules how to encode a PP> URL, so it contains only valid characters. This makes it easy for PP> everybody else to know what the URL is and what surrounding text is. Well, umlauts are allowed so they are not "bad". The encoding makes problems for human readibility in emails; http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%ADa_Internacional_del_Libro is correct, but difficult to read. PP> I really don't see a problem here, as long as TB!'s text parser PP> recognizes all valid encoded URLs ... But that's maybe just me, PP> thinking this way ... You are not alone, but I still think an accent or umlaut should not stop the highlighting. -- Cheers, Thomas. Q: How many programmers dose it take to change a lightbulb? A: None...that's a hardware issue. http://thomas.fernandez.hat-gar-keine-homepage.de/ Message reply created with The Bat! 3.99.1 under Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.99.03 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
