RE: Copy of text problem?

>===== Original Message From kolthoff@gmx.net (Albrecht Kolthoff) =====
>On Wed, 9 Dec 1998 11:23:25 -0500, Robert Carnegie wrote in
><3667EE0D@operamail.com>:
>
>>We're talking about missing out the first character of the selection
>>when copying text from a Web page.
>
>[...]
>
>>Let me report one instance of it, just experienced... I tried to copy the
>>e-mail address of a poster at Deja News
>
>Well, just for this purpose you could also use 'right click | Copy Link
>Address', couldn't you?

No.





:-)

As far as I can see, Deja News doesn't wrap posters' mail addresses in
tags like <a href="mailto:user.robertc@operamail.com">Robert Carnegie</a>
or (?) any equivalent. Where mail addresses in messgaes are clickable, they
don't bring up a mail form, they bring up a catalogue of Usenet postings
at Deja News by the specified author.

I suppose that when people take their arguments over to e-mail, Deja News
loses patronage.

And unless I'm overlooking something, Opera can't take text which happens
to be a mail address, like "kolthoff@gmx.net", and turn it into a
clickable link.

Although maybe OperaMail can; it does URLs. Maybe if you say
mailto first, like mailto:user.robertc@operamail.com ?

Robert Carnegie
Glasgow, Scotland