On 1/29/10 11:47 AM, "Lachlan Hunt" <[email protected]> wrote:
> John C. Welch wrote: >> On 1/29/10 10:25 AM, "TGC"<[email protected]> wrote: >>> What was originally being suggested is that the HTML *composer* not offer a >>> choice of font, so that whatever the recipient has set as his "default font" >>> is used, on the theory that what they have set as default is whatever they'd >>> most like to see. Thus, there's no possibility of mangling any sent >>> messages. >> >> You have to have some choice of font in the composer. What, if someone wants >> to have most of it in Helvetica and a code snippet in Courier they have to >> change the application preferences? > > No, font selection certainly does not need to be present in the composer > to handle that, and many other use cases. > > The following markup illustrates precisely how you can achieve the > effect you want, without having to have any font selection for the user. > <Stuff that so misunderstands how non programmers work that it makes my head hurt to look at it snipped.> So your solution to html editing is to require people to CODE RAW HTML IN A TEXT EDITOR? As someone who DOES this in MarsEdit, I must seriously question your sanity if you think that's how the majority of "power users" want to change a friggin' font. > > If you load that up into a web browser, you'll see that the paragraphs > are rendered in a sans-serif font and the code is rendered in monospace, > and it was all achieved *without* any user editable font families or sizes. You don't deal much with non-geeks, do you. > > If a user wants that to be presented in a bigger font in the compose, > all they have to do is zoom, just like you can do in your browser. > Zooming does not change the font size specified in the stylesheet, just > the size that it's rendered at. So you don't like allowing wysiwyg editors, but you want people to use STYLE SHEETS FOR EMAIL. Right. Where's the vodka > > Also, the plain text alternative of that will look as simple as: > > --- > Hi there, > Here's a code sample that I thought you should take a look at. > > #include <stdio.h> > int main(void) { > printf("Hello World!"); > return 0; > } > > It really is /that simple!/ > --- > >> Even in plain text, you can choose a font. You just only get one to use for >> a given message. It is not even possible to suggest no font choice as an >> option. > > I'm really not sure what you're trying to say here. I don't know what > it means to "suggest no font choice". You want to make people use raw HTML to compose HTML email. It is impossible for us to speak the same language. Someone else will have to interpret. -- 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
