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Re: Best email

Subject: Re: Best email
From: "Richard Grevers"
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 00:19:43 +1300
Newsgroups: opera.general
On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 23:30:11 +1300, Roger Johansson <roger4911@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Richard Grevers wrote:

>> This would lead to only one thing: Sites blocking Opera on the principal
>> of "Don't mess with my page" - its every bit as evil as Microsoft's
>> "smart tags" were.

Website owner happens to check out their site in Opera and sees links
where they didn't put them. That is altering the author's content.

First of all, I wasn't talking about web sites, I was talking about
received emails and notes, which are my property.

And I was talking about both because Opera's current solution for go to url (which is the best I've seen in any browser) works across the board (sometiems I wish it worked in the compose window too!)

Second, Isn't the user mode and all modes in the style menu
really changing the layout of web sites?

STYLE != CONTENT. Putting a link where the author did not put one is changing the content. If the author had intended there to be a link there, they would have damn well put one there.

The last argument does not apply for emails since there is no standard for inserting a link in text/plain email - the client is responsible for generating hyperlinks. I know to write all urls in emails complete with protocols because that's what the more brain-dead mail clients recognise. Alas, most of them can't recognise an URL that wraps. Opera goes a step further in mail and will highlight what looks like a domain name without the protocol, but that's really as far as it dare go without becoming a nuisance. select -> go to url is a super-elegant solution for anything else.

Remember too, that opera:files is a valid URI, but g.rc:country in the code I might be emailing a colleague is not. The AI required is simply too demanding and not worth the effort.

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