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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> [reposted with corrections]
>
>
> In lugnet.admin.general, Ben Gatrelle writes:
> > Doesn't the server do it because you have told it WRAP=HARD.
>
> Is that a delcarative or interrogative statement? :-)
It is a retorical interrogative statement of what I thought was the truth.
;) Apparently it is not truth, though...
> No, the client (web browser) is doing the line breaking. The WRAP=HARD
> attribute of <TEXTAREA> asks the web browser client to wrap the user's text
> at the COLS=n margin *before* sending it to the server. And I just double-
> checked in the raw incoming posting form logs for the relevant URLs below to
> make sure that this is the case here -- it's not breaking the lines on the
> server end.
>
>
> > Here is a web-interface post from June where the line break was automatically
> > entered at the ? in the URL <http://news.lugnet.com/market/auction/?n=6089>
>
> That would be happening at the client side. But I'll check the raw incoming
> form logs... OK, ya, your web client (browser) sent it line-broken after
> the ? in the URL for some strange reason probably only Bill Gates knows. :-)
>
>
> > This post was broken at the 79th character and was sent in through email
> > <http://news.lugnet.com/market/auction/?n=6123>
>
> In my opinion, that is a godawful evil bug in your email client. Hmm...It
> says it was mailed using "Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)".
> Is there a newer version without the wrapping bug? Had you asked your mail
> client to break lines like that? Maybe it has an option to shut the forced
> breaking off. The email client broke a word into two words! -- this time not
> even at a punctuation character. That's pretty bad -- you should report that
> to your software vendor and ask them to fix it. (Send yourself an equivalent
> mail first of course to verify it in case I'm wrong. :-) • I'll look into this. I don't believe I have any settig for length of a line.
>
> > Here is a test post I just did through the web-intterface showing broken
> > URLs. <http://news.lugnet.com/off-topic/test/?n=2388>
> >
> > I use IE5.x for my browser and Outlook 2000 for mail.
>
> That's evil. OK, MSIE isn't handling WRAP=HARD the same was Netscape and
> Mozilla handle it.
I just launched my Netscape navigator 4 and replied to the test message
above. I made sure to delete the hard breaks that were there and the result
is the same in Nav4 as my previous post via IE5.
See <http://news.lugnet.com/off-topic/test/?n=2389>
> Let's try this: I'll have the server send out WRAP=SOFT if it your browser
> identifies itself as "MSIE" in its user-agent string, otherwise it'll send
> out WRAP=HARD as normal.
>
> Is that better now or worse? It should be better, and you should be able
> to post your long eBay URLs now.
Better. See <http://news.lugnet.com/off-topic/test/?n=2390>. Now it does not
wrap at all, but rather it extends the width of the table cell in which the
text is displayed. What I should have done was type a long parapraph like
this one also to see if this wraps automatically at the end of a word at
character 76 or 77 like you said it should.
> --Todd
>
> Here's a great page, BTW -- one for the bookmarks!...
> http://www.hut.fi/u/jkorpela/forms/textarea.html
>
> What does your browser do with the "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"
> example when you click View?
Results:
default
Superclifragilisticexpialidocious.
hard
Supercalifragilistic
expialidocious.
off
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
BEN
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