Re: Conlang Article in the LA Times

* Philip Newton said on 2007-08-26 20:25:31 +0200
> Incidentally, I've found that some programs which break long urls will
> "preserve" them (in the sence that they're still broken over multiple
> lines, but the entire thing is clickable rather than only the first
> line) if the URL is embedded in angle brackets thus:
> <http://www.example.com/> or
> <http://www.example.net/test/ofa/a/very-long-url?that=has&various=parameter&to=test&what=happens&to=such&a=URL>
This is, after all, how you're supposed to include an url in text ;)

http://www.w3.org/Addressing/rfc1738.txt

This actually recommends to write <URL:http://www.example.com/> for
http://www.example.com/ in plaintext, as preferred over
<http://www.example.com/>, but I haven't seen that used anywhere.


t.

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