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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, take a look at what happened here:
[...]For instance, you're right that it's non-homogenous. But take that to its conclusion: some people want to use lynx to view the web, that's fine and there 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 rest of
UGLY!!!! You *prefer* that mess? It just gets worse and worse and the thread bounces around. Did you reply 'its' to my "For instance..." or is that just continuation with bad wrapping? People have to work through the formatting instead of just reading the actual content. This doesn't happen when things are <blockquote>'d in HTML mail.
Is all black preferable to *neither* color scheme? You can only read highlighting that uses your personal color set?Oh? Funny, when I look at source, keywords are green, comments are gray, 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*.
This is the first which blocks HTML altogether, which why I find it strange.
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" :-)).
PS In a modern email reader, you will probably see a ` accent on the "à la" above. But perhaps we shouldn't support other languages' characters because that would be non-homogenous in older consoles which don't support it, and english speakers don't like to see funny accents in their ASCII text.
I know I'm baiting there, but hopefully you see the relation? Time marches on, and there are better ways to do things.
-- Matthew We are Microsoft. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. --Badtech
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