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From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: URLs containing `?' are not fully comprehended
Date: 18 May 2000 17:31:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ylem6zv0rd.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Toby Speight's message of "17 May 2000 15:23:20 +0100"

Toby Speight <streapadair@gmx.net> writes:

> While we're on URL highlighting, some folks use <...> instead of
> <URL:...> to delimit multi-line URLs.  Is it possible for us to
> accommodate this use?  (IME, it's becoming more common)

The <URL:...> form is basically dead, unfortunately, because it was a
recommendation of an RFC that's now been superseded by a newer RFC that
suggests just using <...> because that's what everyone is actually doing
and because almost no one used <URL:...>.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



      parent reply	other threads:[~2000-05-19  0:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-05-16 18:24 Karl Kleinpaste
2000-05-16 19:29 ` Arne Jørgensen
2000-05-16 19:37   ` Bjørn Mork
2000-05-16 20:10   ` Simon Josefsson
2000-05-16 21:00     ` Kai Großjohann
2000-05-17 14:21       ` Toby Speight
2000-05-17 16:21         ` Andreas Fuchs
2000-05-17 11:46 ` Per Abrahamsen
2000-05-17 12:17   ` Karl Kleinpaste
2000-05-17 17:55     ` Per Abrahamsen
2000-05-17 14:23 ` Toby Speight
2000-05-17 15:40   ` Steinar Bang
2000-05-18 10:22     ` Toby Speight
2000-05-19  0:31   ` Russ Allbery [this message]

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