--On January 30, 2010 10:55:24 AM +0100 Jeff <[email protected]> wrote:
That depends on your criteria for failure. This app is targeting "developers and power users", and in my experience, these folks tend to favor plain text. Delivering on the stated goals of your vision document is not failure in my book.
If you're definition of "power user" is those that use plain text, then I would say this true, but it's a bit self-selecting. I know many "power users" that use styled text because bold, italics, color and yes, even fonts and font size convey meaning and INCREASE readability. This is vastly important to those jobs whose primary function is communicating with real people, not just techno nerds.
This is a Mac app. There is a reason the Mac doesn't ship with just Andale Mono, Courier, Courier New and Menlo fonts. Yes if you give people tools to help them do their job some will use them stupidly, but you can't make a hammer that someone won't whack their thumb with either, but it's hard to build a house without a hammer.
And CSS styles? Honestly? Now you're moving the goalpost from "power user" to "web designer". The number of e-mail power users I know that even know what CSS styles are can be counted on one hand.
Letters.app should be able to create e-mail in at least plain text and limited HTML. Styled only would be nice, but that's pretty much just a subset of the limited HTML anyway. The HTML generated should be CLEAN and render correctly on the majority of other clients. The plain text version sent along with the HTML should be readable (i.e. proper paragraphing and lists with * or - in front of them, not just stripped tags)
What should the default be? I don't care as long as changing the default option is a simple selection I set once.
Oh and the HTML should support flash. Kevin _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
