[Coco] again: messed pipermail archive on my smartphone

[Brian Blake]

Looks fine on my S4.

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On May 23, 2014 5:41 PM, "Torsten Dittel" <OS-9 at trs-80.cc> wrote:

> 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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