[thelist] Re: news.com article on browsers and mainstream sites etc..

Douglas Rehg drehg at fishcicle.com
Tue Jul 16 17:38:00 CDT 2002


Eudora fails the wrap without the "<" and ">", but succeeds with them for
the long directory structure as well as the long query string (Eudora 4.3)

At 03:22 PM 7/16/02 -0700, James Aylard wrote:
>Tim, et al,
>
> > > I'm sure it depends on the mail client.
> > >
> > > Works for Mozilla's mail client though
> >
> > works in PINE, too (4.33).  Think it works in RMAIL, too (Emacs
> > mailreader).
>
>     I have found that Outlook and Outlook Express can successfully wrap long
>URLs if what puts them over the edge is a querystring, as in Tim's example.
>However, if the length is due to a long directory structure, they won't wrap
>successfully, even with the less-than/greater-than characters appended to
>them. Here's a test that should fail in Outlook and in Outlook Express, and
>perhaps other readers, as well:
>
>http://www.fakecompany.com/fakestuff/morefakestuff/stillmorefakestuff/moremo
>remorefakestuff/default.html
><http://www.fakecompany.com/fakestuff/morefakestuff/stillmorefakestuff/morem
>oremorefakestuff/default.html>
>
>James Aylard
>
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