[epub] Re: URL publishing tip

[Bob Bergey <rb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:02 AM -0400 4/17/02, Zaptacular.com wrote:

>The publisher I emailed liked to include her URL
>in her newsletter kind of like this:
>
>~~~http://www.domain.com/~~~
>
>Well, for some email clients that is a big no-no.
>The trailing ~~~ becomes part of the URL and returns a
>404 page error when clicked. I suggested she do it like
>instead:
>
>~~~ http://www.domain.com/ ~~~
>
>She appreciated my suggestion and I suspect
>she will make the change.
>
>It is just a good formatting to never follow your
>URL with characters which could become part of the
>URL.


An even better solution would be to include angle brackets at the 
beginning and end of the URL, like this:

   <http://www.domain.com/>

You should be able to even get away with this, if she really likes the tildes:

   ~~~<http://www.domain.com/>~~~

With the spaces would work, of course, too:

   ~~~ <http://www.domain.com/> ~~~

I've never seen any of these break in e-mail, even with punctuation 
at the end (and no spaces needed). It has an added benefit of keeping 
ultra-long URLs working even when they wrap to two or three lines in 
many (but not all) e-mail clients. Just make sure there are no spaces 
between the angle brackets.

One more thought ... I would recommend NOT ever using tildes to list 
a domain name. The clueless may try including them when they type in 
the address by hand (the clueless don't know you are just supposed to 
click on it <G>). Or if they're reading it on a printed page, 
obviously they have no choice but to type it in. The tildes will 
break the address in probably all browsers. But at least Explorer and 
possibly some others are smart enough to ignore the angle brackets if 
someone should type them in.

Bob


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