On 1/28/10 8:18 PM, "LuKreme" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I am not so bold as to pretend to speak for all users, but this "power user" >>> greatly hopes the default will be plain text. >> >> +1 > > As long as plain text works (always works) properly, it doesn't matter what > the default is for the _real_ power users. They will quickly look for the pref > and set it. > > But quite probably a lot of people will be using this app that are not so much > not he POWER side of power user and much more on the USER side. THey will not > look for the presence, and they will be confused. > > The default *has* to be styled/html or we will see people complaining about > how Letters can only send 'ugly plain text' and getting a bad rap from users. > > It maybe painful, but the fact is that Jared is right, the HTML email fight > was lost ages ago.
Indeed. So rather than trying to make it hard to get to, instead, meet the challenge head on, and give people a solid *subset* of HTML so they can have better formatting and control. If you give them 90% of what they will use right there, no arguing, the other 10% they don't have is forgivable. -- John C. Welch Writer/Analyst Bynkii.com Mac and other opinions [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
