Question about Word Wrap and Message Formatting.

[kkersey_austin]

Steve, I was able to duplicate your wrapping problem by either making
the browser window narrower or by increasing the font size in the
browser settings. Messages look mostly ok if I've got the window
maximized and the font at the normal setting; of course I've got a
higher screen resolution too.

Since you have noticed a change, I wonder if the new format gives more
space to the sidebar info? When a window is narrowed, it is the
message body display area that loses width (although if it gets down
to 40 characters a horizontal scroll bar kicks in). 

But anyway, if the line breaks in the message are at, say 60
characters, and the area alotted for the message display is at 50,
you'll get a "comb" effect like you are seeing. The line breaks could
be put in by the sender's email client or they could be a byproduct of
Yahoo dealing with converting HTML to text (or vice versa) or dealing
with format=flowed; I really don't know much about all those things
except that somehow it never seems to quite work as well as we want it
to here!  

As far as a workaround, for whatever reason, "expanded view" doesn't
seem to try to rewrap the lines to fit the window, so it might work
better for you. Instead of restricting the width of the message area,
it makes the, er, frame? (not sure of the proper term) larger so
everything fits even if that means the window needs a horizotal scroll
bar.

(I wonder if the new format fixes the issue where some messages are
displayed with no wrap at all - each paragraph on one super long line.) 

By the way, I'm using Firefox, with the Adblock extension - which
makes the Yahoo interface much nicer. 

Elisabet, hoping this text wrapping issue gets worked out in her
lifetime...