Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-06 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello MFPA, On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 01:01:00 +0100 GMT (07/Sep/09, 7:01 AM +0700 GMT), MFPA wrote: >> http://example.com/ends-with-(parens) >> both the MicroEd and Windows editors do not highlight >> the final Parentheses. M> Confirmed. The HTML editor does, though.. >> However if I use the sam

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-06 Thread MFPA
Hi On Sunday 6 September 2009 at 11:32:25 PM, in , Bill McQuillan wrote: > Although I do not remember seeing any instances of a > URL enclosed in Parentheses, I have definitely seen it in letters Word documents occasionally:- "Our website (www.example.com) has full details" but that now tend

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-06 Thread Bill McQuillan
On Sun, 2009-09-06, Thomas Fernandez wrote: > On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 11:22:58 +0100 GMT (06/Sep/09, 17:22 PM +0700 GMT), > MFPA wrote: >>> Of course it's fixable. M>> I'm told Thunderbird 3.0b4 manages to include the closing bracket as M>> part of the link. > I didn't know that, but thanks for conf

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-06 Thread MFPA
Hi On Sunday 6 September 2009 at 2:50:28 PM, in , Thomas Fernandez wrote: > Any applications that do it even worse cannot be used > as a benchmark. But thans for the info, I would have > indeed expected better from Yahoo. OTOH (and I have not > tested this) they might have a policy that links i

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-06 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello MFPA, On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 01:14:40 +0100 GMT (06/Sep/09, 7:14 AM +0700 GMT), MFPA wrote: >> It's not an excuse to not fix a bug if any other >> application has the same bug. In fact, if all other >> applications have the same bug, Ritlabs should race to >> be the first one to fix it. >> Fro

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-06 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello MFPA, On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 02:00:25 +0100 GMT (06/Sep/09, 8:00 AM +0700 GMT), MFPA wrote: >> Of course it's fixable. The algorithms to pair >> parenthesis are out there, many softwares do that and >> even colour-code the left and right parenthesis in >> nested code, so that it is easier to se

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-06 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello MFPA, On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 11:22:58 +0100 GMT (06/Sep/09, 17:22 PM +0700 GMT), MFPA wrote: >> Of course it's fixable. M> I'm told Thunderbird 3.0b4 manages to include the closing bracket as M> part of the link. I didn't know that, but thanks for confirming my logic. -- Cheers, Thomas. h

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-06 Thread Jos Klaassens
Hello MFPA, Sunday, September 6, 2009, 12:16:54 PM, you wrote: M>>> Yahoo's webmail interface ("classic" rather than the M>>> one with the extra annoying features) does even M>>> worse: the link ends with "Echelon_" and the whole M>>> of "(signals_intelligence)" sits immediately after M>>> it

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-06 Thread MFPA
Hi On Sunday 6 September 2009 at 12:44:12 AM, in , Thomas Fernandez wrote: > Of course it's fixable. I'm told Thunderbird 3.0b4 manages to include the closing bracket as part of the link. -- Best regards MFPA Wisdom is a companion to age; yet age may travel

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-06 Thread MFPA
Hi On Sunday 6 September 2009 at 8:08:23 AM, in , Jos Klaassens wrote: M>> Yahoo's webmail interface ("classic" rather than the M>> one with the extra annoying features) does even M>> worse: the link ends with "Echelon_" and the whole M>> of "(signals_intelligence)" sits immediately after M>

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-06 Thread Jos Klaassens
Hello MFPA, Sunday, September 6, 2009, 2:14:40 AM, you wrote: M> Yahoo's webmail interface ("classic" rather than the one with the M> extra annoying features) does even worse: the link ends with M> "Echelon_" and the whole of "(signals_intelligence)" sits immediately M> after it in normal text

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-05 Thread MFPA
Hi On Sunday 6 September 2009 at 12:44:12 AM, in , Thomas Fernandez wrote: > Of course it's fixable. The algorithms to pair > parenthesis are out there, many softwares do that and > even colour-code the left and right parenthesis in > nested code, so that it is easier to see which pairs > belon

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-05 Thread MFPA
Hi On Saturday 5 September 2009 at 8:26:22 PM, in , Jos Klaassens wrote: > Hello Bill, > Saturday, September 5, 2009, 6:57:49 PM, you wrote: BM>> Well, I checked the RFCs for URLs and Right BM>> Parenthesis is a valid character in this position, BM>> so I have reported it in the Bug Tracker:

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-05 Thread MFPA
Hi On Saturday 5 September 2009 at 4:44:06 PM, in , Thomas Fernandez wrote: > Hello Jos, > On Sat, 5 Sep 2009 17:18:59 +0200 GMT (05/Sep/09, 22:18 > PM +0700 GMT), Jos Klaassens wrote: M>>> Interesting. Same result here in MS Word 2002. M>>> Not sure that means it's not a TB! issue, though. A

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-05 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Jos, On Sat, 5 Sep 2009 21:26:22 +0200 GMT (06/Sep/09, 2:26 AM +0700 GMT), Jos Klaassens wrote: BM>> Well, I checked the RFCs for URLs and Right Parenthesis is a valid BM>> character in this position, so I have reported it in the Bug Tracker: BM>> https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/view.php?id=7

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-05 Thread Jos Klaassens
Hello Bill, Saturday, September 5, 2009, 6:57:49 PM, you wrote: BM> Well, I checked the RFCs for URLs and Right Parenthesis is a valid BM> character in this position, so I have reported it in the Bug Tracker: BM> https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/view.php?id=7709 Fixable? See https://www.ritlabs.com

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-05 Thread Bill McQuillan
On Sat, 2009-09-05, Jos Klaassens wrote: > Hello Thomas, > Saturday, September 5, 2009, 5:44:06 PM, you wrote: TF>> It's not an excuse to not fix a bug if any other application has the TF>> same bug. In fact, if all other applications have the same bug, TF>> Ritlabs should race to be the first o

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-05 Thread Jos Klaassens
Hello Thomas, Saturday, September 5, 2009, 5:44:06 PM, you wrote: TF> It's not an excuse to not fix a bug if any other application has the TF> same bug. In fact, if all other applications have the same bug, TF> Ritlabs should race to be the first one to fix it. TF> From a practical POV, it's sim

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-05 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Jos, On Sat, 5 Sep 2009 17:18:59 +0200 GMT (05/Sep/09, 22:18 PM +0700 GMT), Jos Klaassens wrote: M>> Interesting. Same result here in MS Word 2002. M>> Not sure that means it's not a TB! issue, though. An issue with a M>> software application doesn't *have* to be ignored just because there

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-05 Thread Jos Klaassens
Hello MFPA, Saturday, September 5, 2009, 3:36:24 PM, you wrote: M> On Saturday 5 September 2009 at 9:11:53 AM, in M> , Jos Klaassens wrote: >> Probably not a TB! issue? After pasting this URL, >> including the closing bracket :) , into OpenOffice >> Writer same result here with Writer. M> In

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-05 Thread MFPA
Hi On Saturday 5 September 2009 at 1:56:12 PM, in , Jack S. LaRosa wrote: > I suspect I'm missing the whole point of this thread > here and should probably keep my big mouth out of it > but curiously, when you click on the (complete) link, > it takes you to a Wikipedia page whose title is MISSI

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-05 Thread MFPA
Hi On Saturday 5 September 2009 at 7:20:22 AM, in , Bill McQuillan wrote: > On Fri, 2009-09-04, Thomas Fernandez wrote: >> On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 22:25:28 +0100 GMT (05/Sep/09, 4:25 AM +0700 GMT), >> MFPA wrote: M>>> I just noticed when including the following URL in a M>>> message:- M>>> http://

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-05 Thread MFPA
Hi On Saturday 5 September 2009 at 9:11:53 AM, in , Jos Klaassens wrote: > Probably not a TB! issue? After pasting this URL, > including the closing bracket :) , into OpenOffice > Writer same result here with Writer. Interesting. Same result here in MS Word 2002. Not sure that means it's not

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-05 Thread Jack S. LaRosa
Hello MFPA, M> Hi M> I just noticed when including the following URL in a message:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echelon_(signals_intelligence) M> that TB! does not treat the closing bracket as part of the link. M> I'm using MicroEd, in case it makes a difference. I'm not sure what's going o

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-05 Thread Jos Klaassens
Hello MFPA, Friday, September 4, 2009, 11:25:28 PM, you wrote: M> I just noticed when including the following URL in a message:- M> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echelon_(signals_intelligence) M> that TB! does not treat the closing bracket as part of the link. Probably not a TB! issue? After pa

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-04 Thread Bill McQuillan
On Fri, 2009-09-04, Thomas Fernandez wrote: > On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 22:25:28 +0100 GMT (05/Sep/09, 4:25 AM +0700 GMT), > MFPA wrote: M>> I just noticed when including the following URL in a message:- M>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echelon_(signals_intelligence) M>> that TB! does not treat the cl

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-04 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello MFPA, On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 22:25:28 +0100 GMT (05/Sep/09, 4:25 AM +0700 GMT), MFPA wrote: M> I just noticed when including the following URL in a message:- M> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echelon_(signals_intelligence) M> that TB! does not treat the closing bracket as part of the link. M> I

If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

2009-09-04 Thread MFPA
Hi I just noticed when including the following URL in a message:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echelon_(signals_intelligence) that TB! does not treat the closing bracket as part of the link. I'm using MicroEd, in case it makes a difference. -- Best regards MFPA If y