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In lugnet.publish, William R. Ward wrote:
> How is this going to be rendered on a text-based newsreader?
Unless someone go totally nuts with crazy table stuff, it should look just fine.
> Not everyone is using a GUI for NNTP you know!
Yup! FTX was designed from day one (back in the summer of 1999) to be
entirely readable as plain text. In fact, here is an example of an article
I posted in 1999 that looks like plain text but is actually FTX if you look
closely. :-)
http://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=9741
Notice that all of the links are readable and clickable, because FTX uses
angle brackets and space characters to delimit URLs, so the URLs work with
all news readers and e-mail viewers that observe URL encoding standards[1].
--Todd
[1] An old version of Microsoft Outlook Express was reported to have a bug
long ago in which the trailing ">" character after a URL was perceived to be
MSOE as part of the URL, but this has long been fixed. "<" and ">" are not
valid URL characters, so they make perfect delimiters.
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| (...) Yes, but the problem is that not all FTX extensions work as well as others. For example the set and part database items, polls, etc. will not display properly on a plaintext system. For those you should convert the FTX code to an URL that (...) (21 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.publish)
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