From: Matthew Kerwin Date: 2013-07-24T10:24:05+09:00 Subject: Re: vlad 2.6.1 Released Chang-Ju P. wrote in post #1116445: > Thanks Ryan > Your link is broken, I think change link ~/vlad> to ~/vlad Not true: there's a defacto standard on the internet to delimit URIs/URLs with angle-brackets, for example: when a URL is longer than 74 characters and sent in plaintext email (i.e. it gets line-wrapped), the angle-brackets help the client detect the real end of the URL, otherwise it would have to assume the URL ends at the end of the line. This standard has carried over to many online mailing lists and forums. When Ryan posted his plaintext message, he included the <>, to make it clear to everyone what parts of his message were URIs. When the forum software renders the message into HTML, the hyperlink it inserts incorrectly includes the closing angle-bracket > (notice how the opening bracket < is _not_ part of the link?). This is an artefact of the collision between the URI standard's set of allowed characters, and the defacto standard of using <> to delimit URIs. Note: when I received the original message as an email, Gmail correctly recognised the <>, and only linked to .../~vlad -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.