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Harriet Bazley <li...@orange.wingsandbeaks.org.uk> wrote:
> On 31 May 2009 as I do recall,
> netsurf-users-requ...@netsurf-browser.org wrote:
>> On 30 May 2009 Jim Nagel <nets...@abbeypress.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> when typing a lengthy bit of text into one of those typically
>>> annoyingly small panes on a web page, i have learnt the hard way over
>>> the years to keep a copy of what i write, because too often a site
>>> throws up some error when i click Submit and then i have had to type
>>> it all over again.
>>
>> Much easier way (and I agree with all that Jim says, having had the
>> same frustrations) is to compose the text in StrongED, get it exactly
>> as it should be (and chuck the spilling if you're me) and only then
>> drag it into the browser's form.
> And then - at least in the case of the IMDb - check that the 'paragraph
> wrapping' is still as intended; blank lines seem to have a tendency to
> disappear so that adjoining paragraphs get wrapped into each other...
> (But I think this is a site bug rather than a NetSurf problem as I
> remember similar problems when using WebsterXL.)
I always type the message in !Edit or !Zap or some other such local
editor and drop the save icon in the window. With a little moan about
the need to do this. It is usually not wrapped correctly in the
window, but surely the reader at the other send sees a normal
full-width window and it is correctly wrapped in that.
Michael Bell
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