Being that I'm the guy who wrote that mechanism, here is my two cents: The original idea was for the dehtml function to salvage links (ie: <A> tags) so that they wouldn't get lost. While I was at it, I figured, "hey, why not also throw in some formatting? Kinda like a reverse markdown thing...". I implemented it, Daniel liked it, the rest is history.
However, I totally understand your annoyance for your friends who really like their bold text and bold the entire message. However, I have good news---that is a very easy case to test for. I can simply make it check to see if the whole message is bold, and if it is then remove the stars (or underscores) from the start and end of the message. How does that sound? On Mar 9, 2006, at 5:43 AM, Daniel Henninger wrote: >> Now that I know what it's doing and I'm not going crazy, I'm not >> too sure if I like it either or not. It works great in theory if >> you have AIM buddies that only highlight certain words, but I've >> got a couple friends who have their AIM client setup to send >> everything in italics or in bold so it gets annoying to look at >> after a while (but I'm sure I'll get used to it). It'd be real >> nice if it could be turned on or off on a per contact level >> (maybe a Ad-hoc command/option per contact?) but that'd probably >> be a bit much. Overall though I say keep it, it's a nice feature. > > Wow, LOL, I don't even have user prefs worked out yet, and now > you'd like user prefs per contact? ;D Maybe I should set up an > autoresponse of "hey, stop bolding the entire thing". ;D Of > course, then again, if you were seeing the actual real bold and > underlines, wouldn't that be just as annoying? Still, I'll have to > think about this a tad . . . __________________ Robert Quattlebaum Mobile: +1(650) 223-4974 eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.deepdarc.com/
