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"Mike"? Who's "Mike"? :-)Err, sorry I meant Matt (I have a friend with a similar user id whose name is Mike)
I think we were on the same page. My point is the "HTML mail is EVIL" comment is definitely a matter of opinion. I happen to prefer messages which word wrap properly and support rich text.Opinion? Um... I did mean "HTML *mail*" above, and since I don't think you're disagreeing with that, I apologize for the ambiguity.
[...]For instance, you're right that it's non-homogenous. But take that toitsconclusion: some people want to use lynx to view the web, that's fineandrest ofthere are ways to give them a usable experience (e.g. 'alt' tags for images), but non-homogeneity isn't a good enough reason to deny the
Given that I meant /mail/, I think this is irrelevant, but on a vaguelyRight, which is the author's problem. So complain to the relative handful of sites that do stupid stuff like that, and appreciate the *vast majority* which are cleanly styled. And as you point out (and agrees with the point I'm trying to make), there are well known work- arounds to strip the style of badly designed pages.
related note, I've seen plenty of illegible or outright unusable web
pages
because some jackass designer assumes that the entire world runs MSIE
with
default settings. In some cases, it turns out to be a nice but ignorant
designer that promptly corrects the problem :-), but it still happens.
Thank
Mozilla for Page Style->None.
Oh? Funny, when I look at source, keywords are green, comments are gray,Is all black preferable to *neither* color scheme? You can only read highlighting that uses your personal color set?
normal text is cyan, etc, and everything has a dark blue background. See
what
I mean? :-)
In a word, bandwidth.It's a mailing list. Doubling a few KB a day is still... just a few KB a *day*. As for archiving/digests, just include the plain text version if the HTML is too difficult to process. And it's not that hard to process -- I've seen plenty of mailing lists which allow the subscriber to choose their format in order to avoid these issues. This is the first which blocks HTML altogether, which why I find it strange.
Ah, so now we're talking about Postscript mail?enscript has HTML output -- see the -W flag.
I'm using XCode, and FYI, Kate has an 'export to HTML' under the file menu which is almost as convenient (Kate is a good editor too, I've definitely made good use of it)Never saw that; what editor do you use? Anyway, AFAIK KATE doesn't do this (and I *dare* you to call it a "lesser editor" :-)).
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