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-Lost wrote:
> Blinky the Shark's response:
>
>> me@ wrote:
>>> Whiskers wrote in
>>> news: @ t:
>>>
>>>> On 2007-08-07, bealoid wrote:
>>>>> »Q« wrote in
>>>>> »news: @ :
>>>>>
>>>>>> In , "-Lost"
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I realize this is rather vague... actually just pointless. But I
>>>>>>>find it odd that I see so many threads where the first post is
>>>>>>>"Re:". For example, Charles Lasitter's thread "Win32 Wanted: Best
>>>>>>>open source news / mail client."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When a Google Grouper replies to a post, Google collapses multiple
>>>>>> whitespaces
>>>>>
>>>>> Wait - is it Google, or is it any web browser? Isn't multiple
>>>>> whitespace on a webpage usually striiped by all browsers?
>>>>
>>>> I wouldn't have thought any browser would automatically strip any
>>>> content from a web page - apart from stuff that it can't display, or
>>>> stuff which the user has deliberately configured to be blocked. A
>>>> text space is just another text character.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Browser does not strip the contents (whitespaces). It just does not
>>> display all "characters" - see the Shark's example.
>>
>> Yeah, the *correct* one: /stuff/
>>
>> Not the link to the Proxomitron that I accidentally first posted. :)
>>
>>> Google is complicating (f*g up) the life. Search on MID is send back
>>> with tags PRE /PRE around the message. That means the browser will
>>> display all "extra" whitespaces, ., Wanted: Best open
>>
>> Note to the Whiskery One: the

 element reproduces text exactly as

>> it was written, including (at least in simple terms) white space.  As

>> another example, If you look at my usenet bonehead page (no, not the

>> Google Grouper page; the other bonehead page), you'll see that all of

>> the entries are in 
 elements, and if someone wrote

>> 

>> help!!!!1!!!!!!!       I'm an idiot!!!!!

>> 

>> Those multiple spaces woudl be rendered.

>> 

>>  

>> 

>>  /comp/ 

>> 

>> In fact, the very first entry shows this quite well.

>

> That has to be some of the funniest shite I've read in a long while.



Here's some more, on a page I forgot I had.  I'll eventually either work

those into the one you just read, or perhaps move some of those into

this other page.  As it stands, there is kind of a duplicate theme to

both pages, and some overlap.



Here's the other (shorter) one with its own boneheads.  :)



 /comp/ 





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Blinky                                                   RLU 297263 

Killing all posts from Google Groups.

Except in Thunderbird, which can't filter that well.

The Usenet Improvement Project:  /comp/