You don't wanna be known as a loser, do ya?

[Neal]

[http://www.geocities.com/johnniemccoy/howtogetawebsite.html]

Oh my. Visit, read, mock.

 

[Starshine Moonbeam]

[http://www.geocities.com/johnniemccoy/howtogetawebsite.html]

Oh my. Visit, read, mock.

It's pretty insulting for a guy who wants to get people to come to him
for site design.

 

[rf]

[http://www.geocities.com/johnniemccoy/howtogetawebsite.html]

Use < and >, not [ and ]. <> makes the URL clickable in a newsreader. []
does not, it makes it into plain text.

 

[tm]

<http://www.geocities.com/johnniemccoy/howtogetawebsite.html>

Oh my. Visit, read, mock.

From that site-
Your GulfComp website is designed to produce the results you expect
from your web presence.
<http://www.gulfcomp.com/>

 

[Neal]

[http://www.geocities.com/johnniemccoy/howtogetawebsite.html]

Use < and >, not [ and ]. <> makes the URL clickable in a newsreader. []
does not, it makes it into plain text.

What newsreader are you using? Never encountered that issue.

 

[Mark Parnell]

What newsreader are you using? Never encountered that issue.

He's not using a newsreader, he's using OE. ;-)

 

[Duende]

While sitting in a puddle rf scribbled in the mud:

[http://www.geocities.com/johnniemccoy/howtogetawebsite.html]

Use < and >, not [ and ]. <> makes the URL clickable in a newsreader. []
does not, it makes it into plain text.

Works fine.
http://xnews.newsguy.com/

 

[Duende]

While sitting in a puddle Mark Parnell scribbled in the mud:

He's not using a newsreader, he's using OE. ;-)

Pointing at Richard ROTFLMBO -------->

 

[Blinky the Shark]

[http://www.geocities.com/johnniemccoy/howtogetawebsite.html]

Oh my. Visit, read, mock.

Does anybody within the sound of my keys have a graphical browser that
renders this page *without* various parts being superimposed over the
top of others? Is this another IE-only page?

http://www.geocities.com/johnniemccoy/index.html

I tried: Firefox, Mozilla, Konqueror; Linux.

 

[Mark Parnell]

Does anybody within the sound of my keys have a graphical browser that
renders this page *without* various parts being superimposed over the
top of others?

Only if I make the text microscopic.

Is this another IE-only page?

Considering it is just text, it'd have to be intentional. Surely?

 

[rf]

Blinky the Shark

Does anybody within the sound of my keys have a graphical browser that
renders this page *without* various parts being superimposed over the
top of others? Is this another IE-only page?

http://www.geocities.com/johnniemccoy/index.html

I tried: Firefox, Mozilla, Konqueror; Linux.

No, it's not IE only.

They try though. Most of the text is in a very small number of pixels so IE
out of the box does not display that over the top of other things. However
<grin/> *some* of the page is not. It resizes. All over the top of the other
stuff.

I would think this site should be not just IE only but local file system
only.

 

[Toby Inkster]

Does anybody within the sound of my keys have a graphical browser that
renders this page *without* various parts being superimposed over the
top of others?

Works fine in Dillo/0.8.0 Linux.

 

[jake]

[http://www.geocities.com/johnniemccoy/howtogetawebsite.html]

Use < and >, not [ and ]. <> makes the URL clickable in a newsreader. []
does not, it makes it into plain text.

[] -- Works just fine in my reader.

regards.

 

[Blinky the Shark]

Blinky the Shark wrote:

Works fine in Dillo/0.8.0 Linux.

True, nothing overlaps. (0.8.3 Linux) I didn't mention it because
of its lack of CSS support, but yeah, I didn't make that clear in
my question. It fares less well in the graphical version of links:

http://blinkynet.net/screens/johnnie_links.jpg

 

[Blinky the Shark]

Neal wrote:

[http://www.geocities.com/johnniemccoy/howtogetawebsite.html]

Use < and >, not [ and ]. <> makes the URL clickable in a newsreader. []
does not, it makes it into plain text.

[] -- Works just fine in my reader.

Okay here, too, in slrn, Pan and Knode (all Linux). They pick up on the
form html://foo , and enclosing it in anything isn't required. Xnews is
the same, in the Windows World. That aside, though, I think the
convention on which /some/ news clients depend is angle brackets.

 

[Philip Ronan]

Neal wrote:
[http://www.geocities.com/johnniemccoy/howtogetawebsite.html]
Use < and >, not [ and ]. <> makes the URL clickable in a newsreader. []
does not, it makes it into plain text.

[] -- Works just fine in my reader.

Okay here, too, in slrn, Pan and Knode (all Linux). They pick up on the
form html://foo , and enclosing it in anything isn't required. Xnews is
the same, in the Windows World. That aside, though, I think the
convention on which /some/ news clients depend is angle brackets.

Angle brackets are better. Strictly speaking the characters "URL:" should
also be inserted, but most software seems to manage without it. See RFC
1738:

 

[Liz]

In message <[email protected]>

Neal wrote:
[http://www.geocities.com/johnniemccoy/howtogetawebsite.html]
Use < and >, not [ and ]. <> makes the URL clickable in a newsreader. []
does not, it makes it into plain text.

[] -- Works just fine in my reader.

Okay here, too, in slrn, Pan and Knode (all Linux).

And on MessengerPro/RiscOS, so presumably also in Gemini (the Windows port
of MPro).

Liz

 

[Toby Inkster]

Angle brackets are better. Strictly speaking the characters "URL:" should
also be inserted, but most software seems to manage without it.

Opera M2 likes <URL:http://example.org/> or <http://example.org/>. If you
represent a URL like that, it will happily make it clickable, even if it
line wraps. If you leave out the angled brackets, then you have to make
sure the entire URL is on one line and is surrounded by some white space.

 

[Leonard Blaisdell]

That aside, though, I think the
convention on which /some/ news clients depend is angle brackets.

One of those is Newswatcher for the Mac. Ancient but wonderful. I've
always used angle brackets.

leo

 

[Starshine Moonbeam]

Neal wrote:
[http://www.geocities.com/johnniemccoy/howtogetawebsite.html]
Use < and >, not [ and ]. <> makes the URL clickable in a newsreader. []
does not, it makes it into plain text.

[] -- Works just fine in my reader.

Okay here, too, in slrn, Pan and Knode (all Linux). They pick up on the
form html://foo , and enclosing it in anything isn't required. Xnews is
the same, in the Windows World. That aside, though, I think the
convention on which /some/ news clients depend is angle brackets.

Works on my Gravity.