On 10/09/07 02:54, Masayuki Nakano wrote: > hmm... I'm not sure it is problem. I think there are two patterns when > you paste/write the URIs. > > 1. URI is a independent. > > I.e., URI is an only member of a paragraph. In western context, we use > empty line for paragraph separator. So, the wrapped URI doesn't make any > confusing. > > 2. URI is a word. > > I.e., URI is an inline word of paragraph. In old layout, the URI was a > line. Now, the URI might be separated two or more lines. But there are > really word separators around URI. So, the URI is always an independent > word. (And other browsers have same behavior, but I don't know the > objections for it.) > > I cannot understand what is problem. Note that Japanese text is > breakable in most points, so the broken words are natural things for me...
The difference between words (in western languages) and URLs is that if you break a word you have a continuation character (the '-') that signifies that this word continues on the next line. This special character is very visible because it stands out in normal text where most of the characters are alphabetic. For URLs you don't have that, at least not a unique one. And because URLs (and file paths) can contain all kinds of special characters and numbers in addition to alphabetic characters the eye is already distracted enough and doesn't easily notice line breaks. The worst examples are the long URLs that some people using Apple Mail send to the .planning newsgroup[1]. Granted, Apple Mail wrapping is much worse, you have done much better work. But let's say you want to send something about fixed bugs https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=fixed1.8.1.8&; order=bugs.bug_id and you find some rubbish at the beginning of the line where it's difficult to at first glance where that comes from. It gets even worse when someone now quotes this part[2]. If the URL would not be broken, perhaps like this https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=fixed1.8.1.8&order=bugs.bug_id it would be clear immediately where it stopped, even though it might not be as beautiful because something extends outside the width of the normal text. Note that I am not arguing to switch the standard behavior. As Boris says most people may get used to it eventually. But for myself and the people who don't, I would like to be able to decide not to break URLs at all (perhaps by some hidden pref). If I would get an indication that this would be taken up I could try to make a patch for that. Peter. [1] e.g. Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ dev-tech-layout mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-layout
