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Mickey Segal
On three different Vista computers I get nonfunctional hyperlinks created by
Windows Mail when pasting a hyperlink into an HTML email message. The text
is colored blue, but the text is not linked to a location on the Web. To
the sender it seems like everything is OK since the hyperlink is colored
blue. However, the recipient gets a broken hyperlink, pointing to a blank
URL.
It seems that the problem does not occur on some computers: Frank Saunders
wrote that he did not see the problem on his computer.
The problem occurs in several different situations involving pasted
hyperlinks, but here how to see the simplest form:
1. Use "Create Mail" to open a new message, and make sure you are using
HTML format (Format | Rich Text (HTML))
2. Type http://www.cnn.com
3. Hit the Enter key twice
4. Copy the first line and paste it into the third line.
5. Send the message to yourself.
The typed hyperlink in the first line works, but the pasted hyperlink in the
third line does nothing. The HTML in the message source can be seen (by
right clicking on the message in the inbox, choosing Properties | Details |
Message Source) as:
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; =
charset=3Diso-8859-1">
<META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.6000.16397" name=3DGENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff>
<DIV><A href=3D"http://www.cnn.com">http://www.cnn.com</A></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><A href=3D"">http://www.cnn.com</A></DIV></BODY></HTML>
Note that in the pasted hyperlink (last line) there is an empty string for
the URL (in the quotes). In contrast, for the typed hyperlink (two lines
up) there is http://www.cnn.com for the URL (in the quotes).
Do others see this problem or fail to see this problem? I see it on
computers with three different versions of Windows (Home Premium, Business
and Home), and although Firefox has been the default browser on all three
computers, the problem still occurs when setting Internet Explorer to
default.
Windows Mail when pasting a hyperlink into an HTML email message. The text
is colored blue, but the text is not linked to a location on the Web. To
the sender it seems like everything is OK since the hyperlink is colored
blue. However, the recipient gets a broken hyperlink, pointing to a blank
URL.
It seems that the problem does not occur on some computers: Frank Saunders
wrote that he did not see the problem on his computer.
The problem occurs in several different situations involving pasted
hyperlinks, but here how to see the simplest form:
1. Use "Create Mail" to open a new message, and make sure you are using
HTML format (Format | Rich Text (HTML))
2. Type http://www.cnn.com
3. Hit the Enter key twice
4. Copy the first line and paste it into the third line.
5. Send the message to yourself.
The typed hyperlink in the first line works, but the pasted hyperlink in the
third line does nothing. The HTML in the message source can be seen (by
right clicking on the message in the inbox, choosing Properties | Details |
Message Source) as:
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; =
charset=3Diso-8859-1">
<META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.6000.16397" name=3DGENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff>
<DIV><A href=3D"http://www.cnn.com">http://www.cnn.com</A></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><A href=3D"">http://www.cnn.com</A></DIV></BODY></HTML>
Note that in the pasted hyperlink (last line) there is an empty string for
the URL (in the quotes). In contrast, for the typed hyperlink (two lines
up) there is http://www.cnn.com for the URL (in the quotes).
Do others see this problem or fail to see this problem? I see it on
computers with three different versions of Windows (Home Premium, Business
and Home), and although Firefox has been the default browser on all three
computers, the problem still occurs when setting Internet Explorer to
default.