--- Darren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is <> some sort of mac thing? Before joining this > list I'd never seen > this ugly hack, well that's what it looks like.
Not a Mac thing. <> brackets are used in HTML to denote the start and end of things like commands and URLs and pointers to images and other files. E-mail clients _should_ be written to know all the URL beginnings like http:// ftp:// https:// etc and if there's a < in front of that then *everything* until the first > (but NOT the >!) should be treated as a URL/link that must not ever be broken by inserting a carriage return in the middle of it. But it appears that many programmers who work on certain e-mail clients that support using HTML in e-mail are lacking in their knowledge of HTML, at least in certain areas. 'Course Microsoft has been trying to rewrite how HTML is supposed to work since they first introduced Internet Explorer. ;P IE has long accepted such dumb errors like unclosed commands. For instance a <table> command not followed with a </table> to close it will render in IE but not in Netscape prior to version 6. Netscape followed the rules. Microsoft has deliberately coded IE with hacks to work around such common HTML errors, thus there are tons of people doing HTML that is full of errors but still works somewhat with IE, so they think they're doing it right. Then they get the attitude that you should just use IE since their website works fine with it. So instead of sticking to the rules, Netscape and some other browsers have bloated their code with hacks similar to what IE has always had to work around the same HTML errors. I'd much rather web "masters" learn how to not make such mistakes so they can become real Webmasters. :) ===== "If all the young people in America were to act as you intend to act, the country would be defenseless and easily delivered into slavery." Albert Einstein in a letter to a pacifist, 1941. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
