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[Wolfger]

On 1/10/07, Raymond McLaughlin <driveray at ameritech.net> wrote:
> Wolfger wrote:

> >> 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>

In addition to s/<pre>//g and s/<\/pre>//g, we also need s/\n/<br>/g
and s/ /\&nbsp\;/g (replace newlines with br tags and replace spaces
with non-breaking spaces) to properly HTML-ify the original text.
Okay... there may be more to it than that, but that's what's evident
to me at 5AM on 3 hours of sleep with a toothache.


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