<http://www.teleport.com/~stevena/scrabble/faq.html>
Does anybody know if converters mung this form?
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I use this form in my DVD FAQ. I think it's much cleaner and more human
readable than the official <URL:http://...> form, and as far as I know it has
been treated well by converters. One advantage over URLS without the <
and > is that long URLs can be split over a line or be followed by a period
and still be properly parsed by converters and other URL-grabbing utilities.
I maintain my FAQ in HTML (using BBEdit), so internally I create an HREF
anchor with the content the same as the HREF, then put bracket entities
around it. E.g.:
<<A HREF="http://www.me.com">http://www.me.com</A>>
This keeps the URLs in my preferred form when I save the file in formatted
text format (from Netscape) for posting.
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Videodiscovery, Inc. - Multimedia Education for Science and Math
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