[clug] Fixed width in GMail (was Re: Network routing joy (iptables, bridging, nat))

[Adam Thomas]

2009/9/1 Mike Carden <mike.carden at gmail.com>:
> Hi Dave.
>
> I wish I could help with your network problem. Superficially it seems
> like it shouldn't be hard, but I have NFI.
>
> What I do want to mention is that I am seeing your email in gmail via
> Firefox and your fixed width ASCII art is of course mangled. So I
> decided to View Source to perhaps see things in a different way and
> pick out the pattern.

Gmail can be told to use a fixed width font to display an email. There
 is a "show in fixed width font" option in the 'down arrow' menu at
the top of the email, where it lists who it's from and when it was
sent.

>
> My eyes! The goggles, they do nothing!
>
> I don't think that I have ever before thought to look at the scripting
> behind a gmail page. Yikes!
>
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