[Coco] again: messed pipermail archive on my smartphone

Torsten Dittel OS-9 at TRS-80.CC
Fri May 23 17:41:18 EDT 2014


All, Dennis,

I had a closer look and figured out that even wrapped text (including 
CR/LF characters) will be displayed in an unreadable small fontsize on my 
smart phone (however, the non-wrapping endless long text lines are an 
issue on my desktop computer too, see:
http://five.pairlist.net/pipermail/coco/2014-May/078885.html
).

I noticed that something changed between:

Sat May 17 11:16:13 EDT 2014 
http://five.pairlist.net/pipermail/coco/2014-May/078883.html

and

Sat May 17 14:06:27 EDT 2014 
http://five.pairlist.net/pipermail/coco/2014-May/078884.html

Looking at the HTML source, it looks ALMOST the same, BUT what has changed 
is the way the actual message is shown.

This still worked:

<!--beginarticle-->
On Sat, 17 May 2014 09:48:49 -0400
<BR> Bla
<BR> Bla bla bla.
<BR> Bla
<!--endarticle-->

This doesn't work any longer:

<!--beginarticle-->
<PRE>Bla
Bla bla bla
Bla</PRE>
<!--endarticle-->

So the issue seems to be the <PRE> tag.

But even if the font size would be bigger on my phone, I would still have 
the issue with the long lines - if the text doesn't contain CR/LF 
whitespace it is the idea of the <PRE> tag not to wrap (it is normally 
used for source code on webpages to explicitely avoid then unintended 
wrapping or removing whitespace like tabs to ident the code).

Regards,
Torsten





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