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[Raymond McLaughlin]

Wolfger wrote:
> On 1/10/07, Michael Corral <micorral at comcast.net> wrote:
>> 2007-01-10, Monsieur David Favro a ecrit:
>>> Any 10-year-old can write a program to wrap lines to device/window
>>> widths.
>> Someone needs to tell the Firefox developers about this, I guess.
>> Some people read the MDLUG web archives while at work, and those
>> long lines just make it really hard to read. For example, this:
>> http://mdlug.org/pipermail/mdlug/2007-January/000481.html
>>
>> Same thing in Opera. I anxiously await your code fixes for Firefox
>> and Opera. :)
> 
> Firefox and Opera are working fine. It's whatever or whoever made
> those archives that's at fault, for putting "PRE" tags around the
> message text. The browsers are just doing what the HTML is telling
> them to do. Although I bet some genius could present a GreaseMonkey
> script to "fix" this.

I'm not sure what a GreaseMonkey script could do, but it would have to
be pretty clever. *Just* loosing the PRE tags alone will not fix the
probelm. I jumped on the server and redid the January archives with
these tags removed here:
<http://mdlug.org/pipermail/mdlug/January/000481.html>
The long lines are wrap in your browser, but the result is not much
easier to read. Look at the the quotes included in this one:
<http://mdlug.org/pipermail/mdlug/January/000524.html>.

Raymond McLaughlin
MDLUG Server Admin.