# How common is it for FAQs to use
#
# <URL:http://www.sample.invalid/>
#
# instead of just
#
# http://www.sample.invalid/
#
# in their FAQs?
I maintain my FAQ in HTML and do this:
When that gets rendered (for example, into text for posting),
That still leaves the problem of URLs that are longer
-- jonadab
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<a href="http://www.sample.com/">http://www.sample.com/>
it generally comes out as just the plain vanilla URL; however,
I [try to, think I do, &c] make sure it's always delimited by
whitespace, and since URLs cannot contain whitespace without
encoding it (%20 and similar nonsense)... there's never any
real ambiguity. This also allows the misguided auto-select
features of certain kinds of software (you know, the kind
where with the <URL:blah> syntax if you drag from the h to
the / it selects from the < to the > anyway because it thinks
that's where the word boundaries are, and obviously you didn't
_really_ want to select just part of a word, silly user, good
thing the software knew how to help you out...) select just
the URL (which can then be pasted into a browser's location
bar or somesuch). This is not _deeply_ critical, because
the misguided feature of which I speak can almost always
be diabled, but a lot of users don't bother or don't know
how to disable it. Also, I don't know of any _newsreader_
(per se) that has this misguided feature, so I doubt it
impacts many users directly. But experience says that
your FAQ _will_ end up in software you never intended it
to be seen in, at some point.
than 80 characters... I've never found a good solution
for that one. Currently I post them alone on a line
but not wrapped (Gnus warns but will allow this), but
I know that a not-insignificant percentage of users
will see them wrapped anyway when their own newsreader
gets ahold of them. Worse, in many cases the first
part will be made a "link" (which of course won't
retrieve the right thing without the second part).
I guess that's what the HTML version of the FAQ is
for...
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