On Sun, 2018-01-07 at 13:42 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 01/07/18 13:12, Tim wrote: > > Allegedly, on or about 6 January 2018, Beartooth sent: > > > Firefox, along with few other browsers, has one valuable feature > > > that should spread. If you copy a *long* link (like, say, three to > > > five lines long in an email) into its address bar, it will eliminate > > > the spaces that come from line ends, and go to the site. > > > > Are you talking about links being typed into emails, or in emails > > you're reading? Either way, he solution would be more to do with the > > email program not breaking a long URI into pieces (whether or not it > > *displays* it spread across several lines). The dreaded unintelligent > > line wrapping methods that various mail clients use. > > > > I've usually managed not too bad with those situations. Some mail > > clients will recognise the link is several lines long, and you can just > > click on it anywhere. Others may require you to highlight the whole > > URI, and then it'll get treated as one long line. > > > > I've had similar experience. It seems to have gotten better over the years, for me. > A while back it seems the MS mail clients were the biggest headache. I recall having > to tell a friend of mine never to put a link as the first line. If you used any > client other than the MS client you couldn't click on the link. > > Anyway, I don't think automatically altering a URL is a good idea. At least in the > way I understand the OP's feature request. I read it as the "copy/paste" function > was somehow supposed to recognize that the destination was to be a browser and then > "fix" the URL. Doesn't sound very practical to me. I agree. Sounds like a recipe for unintended consequences. An alternative would be to paste into an app or widget which sanitizes the URL, then copy-paste from there to the browser. The widget could even be a Perl or Shell one-liner. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
