Saturday, 9 January 2016

Re: The Kingfisher by Corne van Oosterhout

In article <553f34b7e2tim@timil.com>, Tim Hill <tim@timil.com> wrote:
> In article <553f246478bbailey@argonet.co.uk>, Brian
> <bbailey@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
> > In article <0002ff1d.01eff49012f4@smtp.freeola.net>, Peter Slegg
> > <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk> wrote:
> > > > I know that this is very much a technical newsgroup but I just
> > > > could not fail to be impressed how well NetSurf renders the
> > > > following,
> > > >
http://totallycoolpix.com/magazine/2016/01/the-kingfisher-by-corne-van-oosterhout
> > > >
> > > > some sort of photography!?!
> > > >
> > > > Brian
> > > >
> > > >

> > > Is that url complete ?

> > > All I get is "Bad redirect URL"

> > No problem here, Peter. No explanation either.!?!

> > Try removing the > > (don't know what you call those thingys) the line
> > wrap seems to make no difference.

> I find it useful to refer to punctuation using their HTML entities (when
> the recipient has half a chance of understanding) but there's no telling
> how &gt; will be treated between my fingers and your eyes. I've heard <
> (&lt;) and > (&gt;) referred to as 'angle brackets' so > (&gt;) would
> be 'closing angle bracket' and you see why I use &gt; instead.

Thank you, Tim. I knew that they had to have 'proper' nomenclature.

The angle brackets I'm mostly used to were usually made from 3/8in mild
steel, or thereabouts.

Brian

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