On 29/01/10 02:18, LuKreme wrote:
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.
Not to sound overly harsh, but too bad for them. Those people are not the target audience for Letters. From the Letters vision document (emphasis added):
Letters is a lean and programmable IMAP email client, with plugin and automation APIs, *designed for developers and power users*.
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.
I know that whichever default is chosen can still be changed. That's not the point, in my mind. If plain text is not the default, then it will invariably be neglected with respect to any bugs or other shortcomings. It will quickly become a second-class citizen. I have seen this happen most recently with Postbox, which uses HTML as its default for new messages.
[...] the HTML email fight was lost ages ago.
Just go with the flow, right? Whether true or not, this is a weak argument. By the same logic, we should all get rid of our Macs and switch to Windows-based PCs, since that's "what everyone else is using", right? It doesn't matter if "the fight was lost ages ago". You can still choose to do the right thing.
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