> -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Brian Dessent > Sent: 09 July 2004 12:02
> William Blunn wrote: > > > I only wish that I could go back in time and show the > inventor of <PRE> > > the havoc they have wreaked by making it turn off wrapping > by default. > > I'm pretty sure you were joking here but if not... > > That's the whole point of PRE, that it *doesn't* wrap. It's for text > that's been preformatted, with linefeeds and spacing already > determined. If PRE were to mangle the text by wrapping it at some > margin, it would totally defeat the purpose of the tag. > > What really needs to be improved is mhonarc or whatever app is used to > make the web archives. It should detect when the message contains no > linebreaks and not use PRE but rather let the browser render it as > normal text, so that it will be wrapped to the width of the screen as > intended. Actually it's easier than that, I think. All it needs to do is grep through the MIME headers. If it finds the format-flowed tag, it doesn't insert <PRE>. If it doesn't find it, it does. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/