Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/07/09/07:37:33
> > What really needs to be improved is mhonarc or whatever app is used to
> > make the web archives. It should detect when the message contains no
> > linebreaks and not use PRE but rather let the browser render it as
> > normal text, so that it will be wrapped to the width of the screen as
> > intended.
>
> Actually it's easier than that, I think. All it needs to do is grep
> through the MIME headers. If it finds the format-flowed tag, it doesn't
> insert <PRE>. If it doesn't find it, it does.
As Brian indicated, many mail programs will not include the format-
flowed tag where it would perhaps be appropriate.
Whilst you could take the view that it is their problem, this does not
get the baby bathed.
In the real world, you would probably want to think about having a
heuristic that looked for "lines" longer than, say, 80 characters, and
flag those for wrapping as well.
Bill
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