* Will Yardley <mutt-us...@veggiechinese.net> [09-14-14 19:29]: > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 07:05:17PM -0400, Mark Filipak wrote: > > > > I created a minor civil war on the Mozilla list when I proposed that > > text NOT be flowed at all; that it's the responsibility of the viewing > > application to format messages to the user's specification; that > > formatting should NOT be coded within messages. Flowing and rewrapping > > doesn't work right in any email program I've ever seen. (But as you see, > > I'm wrapping text, so you can infer who won the civil war > > I think the idea of encoding text so that quoted text can be displayed > properly on various types of devices is important -- maybe even more > important now with all the large monitors and tiny devices we read on. > > The problem, though, is that doing so in a tool like mutt where the > editor is (by design) completely divorced from the MUA does make it a > lot more difficult to properly generate flowed text.
The *real* problem is that email is a "text" function and all the fancy formatting is irrelevant. Sentence structure,tables and paragraphs suffice. And all the jump-thru-hoops to present some fancy display disappear. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net
