On Jan 2, 2013, at 3:01 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: > On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 5:19 PM, John Francis <jo...@panix.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 01:22:01PM -0800, Larry Colen wrote: >>> As I understand it, I guess that some people have a problem with posting a >>> plain URL in the email: >>> >>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/8339725404/ >>> >>> So, people have taken to enclosing them in angle brackets: >>> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/8339725404/> >>> >>> which show up in the browser on my phone as >>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/8339725404/%3e >>> >>> with the appended %3e causing file not found errors. Would it work for >>> people who need the angle brackets, if there was a space between the >>> bracket and the url, so that the bracket doesn't get parsed as part of the >>> url? >>> < http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/8339725404/ > >> >> The browser on your phone is broken. > > Agreed.
So it seems. > > And any proposed "solution" that requires a large number of people to > change their habitual behaviour and adopt some new convention is > doomed to failure. There is that. It turns out that there is no perfect solution. Though using something like tinyurl.com for long urls can really help. > > Submit a bug report. In fact, it's Open Source. Already have. > Fix it yourself. Just downloaded the source before reading this. > Isn't > that why you chose Android over iOS? ;-) Nope. I chose Android over iOS because I find the iOS UI unusable. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
