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]


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