On 15 Feb, 2011, at 13:32, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
As for the list archives, you can make the lines wrap by changing
the style sheet (or use an appropriate user style sheet), for
instance,
pre { white-space: pre-wrap; }
Thanks, this worked like a charm.
<sarcasm>
And of course the great advantage of having every user do this
individually, instead of just changing the web site, is that only the
inner circle of those "in the know" get the benefit of a readable
mail archive.
</sarcasm>
That is the result of some clients and users violating netiquette
and mail standards, for instance, RFC 1855, section 2.1.1:
- Limit line length to fewer than 65 characters and end a line
with a carriage return.
I'm sure that was all wonderful back in the century of teletypes and
(if you were very lucky) a 80-column VT100 terminal, but these days I
read email on devices ranging from my phone at one end of the
spectrum to my desktop computer with dual 30-inch displays at the other.
On my 30-inch displays your hard-wrapped text appears as a thin
narrow ribbon of text no matter how wide the window is, and on my
phone your hard-wrapped lines are too long to fit so they get re-
wrapped to that charming long/short/long/short pattern so
characteristic of hard-wrapped text displayed on any device other
than the one it was created on.
Stuart Cheshire <cheshire@xxxxxxxxx>
* Wizard Without Portfolio, Apple Inc.
* www.stuartcheshire.org
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