Gregg Eshelman wrote:
>Eh? I don't use OE. Would be nice if all e-mail >clients would stick to a standard on how they >treat URLs when automatically making them clickable. > >Spaces in URLs are annoying. Even replacing them >with %20 often doesn't work because many e-mail >clients will break a URL after the % ? or - character. >Best you can do is use < > at the ends and if the >client still snaps it in two and/or makes the >trailing > part of the link then there's a programmer >or two somewhere who needs whapped with a >"clue-by-four". ;P > I never though you would use OE Gregg. I wouldn't ask your advice if I knew you did. ;) For 8 years 90% of all links that I have posted have been underlined sadly my move to mozilla proved this. :( Mozilla will add a fore and aft "_" making the link less than usable which you kindly pointed out about a month ago. Every other email client I have treats underlined links, both sending and receiving, properly. This covers a few platforms and email clients with eudora being the exception. Perhaps Moz has taken your W3C to heart, but why add extra characters and corrupt everything between. Smells bad to me. Is <> some sort of mac thing? Before joining this list I'd never seen this ugly hack, well that's what it looks like. I've read your W3C spec thingy reason for using brackets. I've also posted bug reports to Mozilla asking why the underline doesn't work like every other email client I've ever used. Underlining should be transparent, my chats with pickle more or less proves that for me, it also should force the link to remain unbroken at the receivers end. Brackets fail too often with long url's especially now that the entire character set gets included in some links, I can not support its recommendation as the best alternative for hi-lighting links in plain text email. Leaving the link plain, no brackets or underline does appear to have limitations and character flaws. Never trusted this method and for sometime I figured everyone else underlined. :-\ If there ever was a standard for emailed links it should be underlined rather than brackets as its been in the past. Opinions greatly appreciated as I seem to be on my own on this one. I don't wish to change without reason. Habits are hard to break and I can only test so much. I leave it to the list. Gregg, your opinion is always valued here, thank you. Moz has gone so my posts wont follow threads for a little while, sorry. NS7, W3C what? ;) -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
