Re: minor issue with highlighting URLs in plain text emal

Hi Albrecht,

As I said - there was no markup at all in the HTML (i.e., no <a ...> 
entity) so I'm not surprised by the lack of link there.

If I wasn't in a rush when I did click the link, I should easily have 
noticed the extra trailing dot, but I had other reasons to suspect the 
sender of a bit of technical illiteracy.  When I did contact them, I 
don't think the lack of any plain text version registered in her brain, 
but the inclusion of an image of a flyer (image, not pdf) with no 
accompanying text, did get her attention in terms of accessibility.  (US 
Congressman's office, so I would hope they care about that.)

Jack


On 07/03/2018 01:52 PM, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Hi Jack:
>
> Am 03.07.18 19:25 schrieb(en) Jack via balsa-list:
>> I recently received an email with the text
>>
>> Thank you for contacting the office of Congressman Joe Courtney. Due 
>> to large amounts of spam and fraudulent emails this account is not 
>> monitored. To ensure messages receive the Congressman's attention we 
>> ask that you share your thoughts through his website at 
>> https://courtney.house.gov/contact/email. Thank you.
>>
>> and Balsa nicely turned the URL into a link.  Unfortunately, it 
>> included the ending period in the URL, which led to a 404 not found 
>> error, which I originally blamed on the sender, before realizing that 
>> it couldn't be their fault, since there is no markup in the plain text.
>
> I must admit that I also stumbled into this issue from time to time, 
> but never cared.  I'll look into that, should be easy to fix.
>
>> Interestingly, there was also no markup of the link in the HTML 
>> version, so that version did not show a link, but I'll blame that on 
>> whichever library I am currently using for Balsa to display the HTML.
>
> I guess the HTML renderer will show a clickable link if and only if it 
> is a “<a href="…">…</a>” HTML element.  Did you check that in the html 
> source?
>
> Cheers,
> Albrecht.
>
>
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