Re: [Patch?] minor issue with highlighting URLs in plain text emal

[Jack <ostroffjh users sourceforge net>]

Hi Albrecht,

On 2018.07.03 15:18, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Hi Jack:
>
> Can you try the attached trivial patch?  It simply forces the URI  
> regexp /not/ to end in a “.” character.  Please note that this is  
> /wrong/ according to RFC 3986 which allows URI's to end with a dot,  
> but should fix the issue for the vast majority of cases in the wild  
> (the correct approach is to enclose the URI in <…> as below).  I  
> guess it will also break multiline uri's where the first line ends  
> with a dot, but that seems to be a /very/ exceptional case.
Yes, it works.

> Am 03.07.18 20:21 schrieb(en) Jack via balsa-list:
> > As I said - there was no markup at all in the HTML (i.e., no <a ...>  
> > entity) so I'm not surprised by the lack of link there.
> Yes.  Correct behaviour of the widget!

> > If I wasn't in a rush when I did click the link, I should easily  
> > have noticed the extra trailing dot, but I had other reasons to  
> > suspect the sender of a bit of technical illiteracy.  When I did  
> > contact them, I don't think the lack of any plain text version  
> > registered in her brain, but the inclusion of an image of a flyer  
> > (image, not pdf) with no accompanying text, did get her attention in  
> > terms of accessibility.  (US Congressman's office, so I would hope  
> > they care about that.)
> “Technical illiteracy” is probably a proper description… ;-)  And  
> keep in mind those people decide on the more or less complex voting  
> machines you use.  There has been an impressive talk about this topic  
> by Alex Halderman at the DIMVA conference last week  
> (<http://www.dimva2018.org/keynotes/#Keynote-2>; slides not online,  
> but Google/DuckDuckGo/Startpage may find some references)…
Even worse, at least for non-critical issues such as this, it's almost  
if not totally impossible to get in contact with the technical folks  
who support the folks we CAN contact, so even if it would be an easy  
reconfiguration of some piece of software, you just can't get to the  
right person.

> Cheers, Albrecht.
It's too hot and humid to be very cheerful here today :-)  (And in the  
scheme of things, it's not really that bad...)

Jack