On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:24 AM, John C. Welch <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 1/29/10 8:57 AM, "Brad Lindsay" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>> The analogue of PC vs Mac is absolutely nothing like this. A closer analogy
>>> would be sticking with non-GUI OSes because UNIX is more powerful than OS9.
>>> Pesky mouse!
>>
>> Which explains why Apple's upgrade from the GUI-only OS 9 was to a
>> UNIX OS?  Sorry, I just found this analogy too ironic to be better
>> then the original one.  Maybe a better analogy can be found in how the
>> HTML Standard is usually a description of what browser venders have
>> already started doing?
>
> And yet they didn't throw away the GUI. Funny that. They made "Pretty" the
> default, and make you work to find the terminal and live in that.
>
Right, but the starting point (Classic Mac OS) was "Pretty" not a terminal.

I agree with you that Letters should have a basic subset of HTML
capabilities when composing a message, and I could care less whether
that or plain text is the default.  In general, I use plain text for
messages, but there are a number of times when I'll use HTML for it's
capabilities.  I even like Mail's setting to reply in the format the
sender used.

Brad
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