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Re: urls test
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Date: 
Fri, 14 Apr 2000 14:26:08 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
I might be on(to) something..
<http://www.lugnet.com/off-topic/test/?n=1665&t=i&v=a>

When I try the long-urls in Linux NN, they don't break..  but in my copy of
Windows 98, both NN and MSIE break the urls horridly :(

Wow, that's horrendously bad (browser bug alert!).

Well, maybe it's not a browser bug not after all.  It's totally gross, to be
sure, but it's probably within the definition of WRAP=HARD or WRAP=PHYSICAL.


Hmm, I never had any trouble with NN 4.x in Win95 breaking lines.

I did a bit of digging.  Possibly the reason I've never seen this with NN 4.x
in Win95 before is because all of the forms I used for pasting long URLs into
there were forms using WRAP=NONE.  (I'm not sure how WRAP=NONE differs from
WRAP=OFF, I'll have to go look at the HTML 3.2 specs...)


MSIE decided to break the line at the hyphen:

  http://www.lugnet.com/news/raw.cgi?lugnet.off-topic.test:1667

:-/

I guess MSIE was just trying to do its best to break your "word" at the most
logical spot.  It didn't know it was a URL.  :)


[...]
Would you care to try out WRAP=OFF and WRAP=PHYSICAL with your web browser?
Here's an alternate posting script (just a test -- not guaranteed to stay
around for long) --
[...]

Might wanna also try WRAP=NONE, just for kicks...

--Todd



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(...) Okie, all the tests (NN+MSIE * PHYSICAL/OFF/NONE) are on the original thread: (URL) With the addition of one or two squiffs as well :) Richard (25 years ago, 14-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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(...) Wow, that's horrendously bad (browser bug alert!). Hmm, I never had any trouble with NN 4.x in Win95 breaking lines. What version of NN for Win98 are you running? (Looks like 4.7 from the headers.) MSIE decided to break the line at the hyphen: (...) (25 years ago, 14-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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