[mdlug] List archive and long lines

David Favro mdlug at meta-dynamic.com
Thu Jan 11 11:16:44 EST 2007


Wolfger wrote:
> Rather than using a "stand in", wouldn't it be better to convert
> spaces to their HTML proper equivalent of   and leaving it that
> way (rather than converting back to spaces)? That should enable whole
> lines to be treated as single arguments, and allow whitespace
> retention (multiple spaces show up as one space, but multiple  
> show up as multiple spaces), but the source code would look
> atrocious.... But who views the source to read content
Oh my goodness, do my posts even get through this listserv?  I posted a
script almost 30 hours ago that does exactly this, only you can't
convert *all* of of the spaces to   because then the lines won't
wrap.  Rather, you convert series of N spaces to 1 space and N-1  ,
which is _exactly_ what my script does, yet Ray continues to put work
into this script and this discussion on   goes on.

Michael says he rejects the output of my script, specifically developed
for him, but prefers to "wait for patches to Opera and Firefox"
(ridiculous on the face of it since they work fine, it's pipermail
that's wrong), yet likes the output of Ray's script, which still
collapses the whitespace.

I can't understand what's going on here, it's like I'm living in the
twilight zone.




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