Re: [boost] What is it with boost and tinyurl?

From: Martin Wille (mw8329_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-21 09:59:37

Miro Jurisic wrote:
> <http://boost.sourceforge.net/regression-logs/cs-win32_metacomm/developer/program
> _options.html>

[...]

> Finally, URL line wrapping is a well-understood problem, with a recommended 
> practice (namely, enclosing URLs in text inside <>, as I did above) codified in 
> the current URL RFC. Every email and usenet client I am aware of does the right 
> thing with line-wrapped URLs in angle brackets.

FWIW, the above long URL is apparently not clickable here (Mozilla 1.6)
due to wrapping. Quoting it in a message (as in this one) will likely
reduce the number of clients which detect the URL.

I tend to ignore non-clickable URLs. I guess other people ignore them,
too.

Regards,
m