Re: help
John W. Kennedy wrote:
....
It is can be better to use
<URL:http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/names.doc.html#104285>,
which was once part of the official URL standard. ..
Aaah yes, I knew there was a still better form of
URL representation, but had forgotten what it was,
so decided it better not to comment.
...It was deleted from
the standard for lack of use, but is still supported in some software.
I am not sure if this has been asked/answered before,
but do you know of any software that would recognise
the full form, but *not* the more abbreviated form I first
listed?
(The short form is an entire 4 *chars.* shorter, after all!)
Oh, and as a side comment. If *you* have control over the URL,
a 'short, stable URL' lacking in characters such as '-', '_', '.', ' ',
'CAPITALS' or other extraneous/confusing characters, is way
better than any scheme to try and protect them from wrap,
after the effect..
A 'good' URL - beats any/all efforts to fix a 'bad' one.
Andrew T.