Subject:
|
Re: line breaks in my messages, why does this happen ?
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.admin.general
|
Date:
|
Tue, 24 Oct 2000 17:36:23 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
3269 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> 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
>
> <TEXTAREA NAME="Body" COLS=79 ROWS=20 MAXLENGTH=65000 WRAP=HARD>
>
> It's the WRAP=HARD part that asks for the hard line breaks.
>
>
> > 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?
>
> 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").
>
> 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
Dear Todd,
A suggestion:
How about a url or link box in each message?
I am not a programmer and thus I don't know if my proposal is monumental,
heresy, impractical, or unnecessary. My suggestion is merely an idea to
address the "wrap" problems in messages. If there was a dedicated field
where there were different "margins", would this solve or create problems?
Just as there are boxes for Lugnet .groups and topic headers... Would it be
possible to add a dedicated box for urls/links to the "post a message" and
"reply" options? That way, a space is "built in" to each post for the
insertion of a url. If a person does not wish to include a web address,
then the field is left empty and no link appears in the posted message
(either at the top or end of a message).
I don't know if my suggestion is a simple add-on or a colossal code
challenge. I think enough market messages and discussion group updates
focus on urls to merit considering my suggestion. If there was a seperate
box or field away from the body text, would that solve some of these issues.
If a person wanted to post multiple urls, maybe this field would allow that
as well.
Please let me know if this is a viable idea...
John
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
Message is in Reply To:
10 Messages in This Thread:
  
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
