[X4U] Why do some images not go through on Apple Mail?

Ed Gould edgould1948 at comcast.net
Sat Apr 26 13:04:54 PDT 2008


On Apr 26, 2008, at 5:53 AM, Tim Collier wrote:

>>
>> -------------------SMIP--------------------------
> One thing that I've seen regarding clickable URL's is this:  if the  
> URL is
> complete on one line like http://www.apple.com/ it will work fine.   
> But some
> people post these mile long URL's and they get split so the first  
> part is on
> one line and the second on the line below.  Only way that I've  
> found, if I
> really want to see it, is to copy and paste it into the browser.  This
> happens to me in Mail and Entourage 2008 for instance (this is not  
> a real
> URL so don't click it(by the way, as soon as I started typing what  
> Entourage
> thought to be a URL, it moved the http etc to the line below..talk  
> about
> smart))
> http://www.webpage.com/userpages/iamlinda/personalstuff/ 
> morepersonalstuff/pi
> ctures/photo5?xml/showme_the_picture/ 
> pictureofmeatmy15thbirthday.jpg won't
> work even if you put a < at the beginning and a > at the end.  Only  
> the
> first part of the URL will show as being clickable
> --
>

Tim:

I concur *BUT* even with <> it does not always work. That is why I  
have given up posting URL's or if I do I add the sentence to cut &  
Paste it into your browser.

Ed



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