On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 12:12:26 pm Ghodmode wrote: > Ya I shouldn't have said "there aren't any", but I was hoping someone > would comment with the name of one that doesn't. No one has yet... > Not even you. > What's "TA-ships"?
Teaching assistantships. Any grad student teaching a class, which is many. Are any of them on this list? I don't know. But there are students in Graphic design and computer science and Information Science, and it's reasonable to guess that many of those would be interested in web technologies, and perhaps be a part of this list. And they're using one of the well-known webmails... Hordemail I think. > What do you use? KMail. It also supports HTML mail too, of course. > We have smart people in this community. If people are using a > problematic email client, they'll know it. Besides that, most emails > are HTML formatted. If they have problems with HTML in a mailing list, > they'll also have problems elsewhere. Yup. And do. I have to use Outlook at work, as an office policy. And replying to HTML emails with inline comments is really awful. There's really no way to do it that doesn't make your replies look like part of the original quoted email. This entire conversation would blow up and be almost entirely illegible the way it's currently written if this was in HTML. > You're right, but I still say it would be nice to be able to do things > like this. However, I'm learning that I'm alone in that opinion. Not really. I don't really disagree with your basic premise: that disallowing HTML email is largely outdated. I was participating in your discussion - answering your questions with possible reasons from my own experience. All of my reasons were fringe cases, which sort of proves your argument. The problem is that I don't disagree with the rest of the list's premise that HTML email isn't really necessary either. You're asking why we don't. Everyone else is asking why we should. And as far as I can see, the reasons aren't that compelling in either direction. ---Tim ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
