Sadly as this site becomes more widely known, the ability of new contributors to have their work recognized is diminishing. Time was - back in the day - that your image would stay on the first page of the New Images for a whole day. Now you're lucky if it stays there for four hours.
Going barefoot is the gentlest way of walking, and can symbolize a way of living.It's the feeling of enjoyment beneath our toes...it removes the barrier between us and nature...(AdeleCoombs,Barefoot
Dreaming)
Of course, it's better not to paste the address at all, but instead to put it as a hyperlink, thus avoiding the whole problem (not to mention the issue of possible page stretching).
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." Bertrand Russell
Yes, sorry, I have page stretched too by way of illustration.
Apparently, &image can be interpreted as special character ℑ ℑ I think it's a mathematical symbol. Of course with IE ignoring vast swathes of standards compliancy, it probably doesn't happen on that browser. Why it happens on Firefox I don't know - maybe it is strictly sticking to the standards or maybe it is some sort of weird encoding thing.
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." Bertrand Russell
The problem is that the & symbol is used to escape special characters in html. For instance < prints a less than symbol. The proper way to include a url with an ampersand in html is to put & whenever you want the page to have an &. Obviously that is confusing and is why I'm going to start replacing all the ampersands in URLs with semi-colons.
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." Bertrand Russell
2nd- http://www.caedes.net/Zephir.cgi?lib=Caedes::Infopage&image=viperAngel-1119699206.jpg