On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, David Godfrey wrote:

> One problem with plain text and modern clients, is that text is wrapped
> at the senders end.
> Normally to something like 72characters.
> This is a huge waste of screen space where you may easily have 160 to 300
> or more characters available on a modern screen.
> Worse is when the sender has changed the default to something large, then
> you often have to scroll left and right as well as up and down to see the
> whole message.
> HTML on the other hand allows for dynamic rewrapping of the text by the
> receiving client.
> The sentence before last was all one line.
> Change the width of this window, it should rewrap the text dynamically.

Isn't "flowed text" supposed to take care of that?  (RFC 3676)  I.E. take 
care of it for non-HTML messages.  Of course, I suppose it requires the 
clients to implement it, and maybe most don't, but it is the intended 
solution to this problem.

I generally use (al)pine, in which case HTML or non-HTML doesn't matter 
except for character set display issues; but when I read by mobile phone 
(sadly Outlook Mobile), the HTML can be annoying.
Generally, though, I don't care.

Luke


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