Apple's mailer is annoying ( was Re: [Zope3-dev] Contained events interface inheritance order)

[Jim Fulton]

Florent Guillaume wrote:
> On 30 Nov 2005, at 17:04, Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
>> Florent Guillaume wrote:
>>
>>> On 30 Nov 2005, at 13:17, Jim Fulton wrote:
>>>
>>>> (Is there some reason for the urls you give to have spaces in them?
>>>> It makes them harder to follow. It appears that this is a mac thing.
>>>> It's rather annoying.)
>>>
>>> This is the delsp parameter of rfc3676, which apparently only  Apple  
>>> Mail implements, I've no idea why the other mailers haven't  
>>> followed  suit.
>>
>>
>> Perhaps because it is really annoying?
> 
> 
> Only because Mozilla doesn't implement that RFC :-). Otherwise you'd  be 
> able to see perfectly wrapped messages and non-broken URLs.

I don't see how.  Here's an excerpt of the raw source of your message:

" From the archives I can find this was decided after:
http://www.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ComponentArchitecture/
SimplifyObjectLifecycleAndLocationEvents
but without motivation for this part. I'm still looking for the"


There is no way for my mail client to know that
"http://www.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ComponentArchitecture/" and
"SimplifyObjectLifecycleAndLocationEvents" should be clued together.
URLs often end in "/"s.  Implicitly joining text following a "/" is fairly
likely to lead to invalif URLs.

Jim

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