Hello, * Karl Berry wrote on Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:04:25AM CET: > > Ralf pointed out to me in separate email that the <...> allow > better recognition in some contexts. I don't necessarily advocate for > never using <...>, but I don't see a specific reason to do so here.
Well, they allow recognizing and marking a URL better when it is displayed wrapped, for example. At least my Gnome desktop marking mechanism seems to cope better with that. But even recognizing short URLs within plain text works better with <...>. Personally, I think not delimiting URLs feels a bit weird: they are not plain text, so some kind of quoting seems appropriate. But that's just me, I guess. Cheers, Ralf