Subj : Re: Bluetooth Keyboard
To   : Ky Moffet
From : Ed Vance
Date : Sat Aug 10 2024 09:59:52


> ED VANCE wrote:

> That's because BBS messages are plain text. There's no HTML behind the
> partial link to make it behave like a full link.

> So to work properly in a BBS post, it needs to be a complete URL.

> But even then....

> Depends on the software reading the message. If the software knows HTML
> links, then it will. If it doesn't, it won't. BlueWave never heard of no
> durn internet, so didn't matter how you formatted links, they were still
> dead text. SeaMonkey is primarily a browser, so naturally its email 
> client knows how to parse links, even if they're presented as plain 
> text, or even certain kinds of partial links (missing www or com).

> ALL links are now assumed to be https:// and some browsers won't even do
> ftp:// anymore.

> Depends if the link was correctly formatted, I expect. If https://www is
> omitted, that usually gets assumed, but will only work if the server 
> actually uses www, which not all do. If .com is omitted, it doesn't get
> added (except by the Mozilla family).

> There should be a setting: "allow search from the address bar" -- you 
> need to disable that. If they still let it be disabled, anyway. 
> SeaMonkey does; Chrome doesn't.

> I loathe the "modern" Firefox interface, and use it rarely to never. 
> Don't even install it if it's not already there. Chrome has its suckage 
> but the interface is not as bad as Firefox.
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In my earlier post I wrote that Links were underlined, I Goofed (again).
Links are colored Blue.
Even the snippets where You wrote: https:// , ftp , www  ;  those showed up
colored Blue.

Ages ago when I used Juno for Email I typed a URL in a message and got a reply
that that was a clickable link.
It surprised the guy that I sent it to that he could go to the webpage
directly.

Thanks, I will see if I can disable the Search from Address Bar option in
Firefox.

When I started using my 486 I didn't have Internet, just Dial Up Juno for
Email.
When I got Dial Up Internet, the ISP had Internet Explorer 3.0 on its software.
Because I had read posts on the BBS about Netscape I downloaded a copy of
Communicator, or maybe it was called Navigator.

I noticed when saving a Bookmark in IE that each Bookmark was a individual file
on the HDD.
Netscape (and Firefox also) added additional Bookmarks to the file until the
Bookmarks filled the space (Cluster?) on the HDD and then would start using
another space on the HDD 

When I had the 486 built in the early 1990's most PC's sold then had either a
120MB or 220MB HDD, I asked for a 330MB HDD to be put in the case.
I thought IE used too much of my valuable HDD space, so chose to use Netscape's
browser and later Firefox when I saw that Bookmarks used the same scheme.

As I wrote earlier "Everything has to be to My Specifications".  ;-)
Just wish this Android phone would learn what "I" want it to do instead of
misbehaving all of the time.
Ed
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