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Re: line breaks in my messages, why does this happen ?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 24 Oct 2000 10:30:50 GMT
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Todd -
How much of an inconvenience would it be for you to put in some basic form
of link parsing for the part of the news server that accepts posts?
Also, would it be too much to ask for some basic tag identifiers to help
identify the start and end of URLs? I know ordinary HTML has "a href" etc.
but I'm not looking for anything that complex, just something that flags the
beginning and end of the URL: properly and lets the server know it should
avoid breaking this if possible. It would be nice if LugNet moved up from
the format currently used for news groups and had something that at least
allowed one basic HTML-type command to be recognizable.
Cheers ...
Geoffrey Hyde
Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message
news:G2x557.1qJ@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.admin.general, Ray Sanders writes:
> > When I enter a message thru the web interface, then click preview, the • raw
> > text (in the edit window) comes back with hard line breaks at the end of
> > each line. Why does this happen ?
>
> Because the form says
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> <TEXTAREA NAME="Body" COLS=79 ROWS=20 MAXLENGTH=65000 WRAP=HARD>
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> It's the WRAP=HARD part that asks for the hard line breaks.
>
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> > In case it matters, I'm using MacOS 8.1, Netscape 4.5.
> >
> > This also caused a URL I put in to line break. You can see this at...
> > <http://news.lugnet.com/market/theory/?n=1679>
> >
> > Am I doing something wrong?
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> No, but I think your web browser is. With other browsers, WRAP=HARD only
> applies at word breaks (i.e. spaces), meaning that really big long words
> more than 79-80 columns -- like URLs, for example -- shouldn't be broken
> when you browser sends the text. OTOH, maybe the browsers that work are • the
> ones that are broken.
>
>
> > One possible solution to the URL problem would be
> > if the edit area was wider (although I suspect that this could break • people
> > on a screen smaller than 17").
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> Actually, screen size doesn't matter much, it's screen resolution (for
> example 1024x768 or 640x480) that matters. But along those general lines,
> one possible solution would be to leave out the WRAP=HARD line. • Unfortunately,
> then what happens is that you have to hit Enter (or Return) manaully and • if
> you don't, your text area scrolls.
>
> What does Netscape 4.6 or 4.7 or MSIE 5.x on the Mac do? I don't think • it's
> supposed to be breaking URLs onto two lines without your permission. And • it's
> not something the server does.
>
> --Todd
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