Re: Mailing List Conventions: Plain Text Versus Rich text?

2013-10-20 Thread Frank Marrenbach
Richt Text Format (RTF) is a file format to exchange text documents across word processing software applications like MS Word, Open Office Writer, …. It works like a standard also with very old software tools. HTML is a language to build internet pages. Normally internet browser will show HTML p

Re: Mailing List Conventions: Plain Text Versus Rich text?

2013-10-19 Thread Teresa Cochran
Oh, gotcha, Nic. Yes, sometimes the commercial emails I get are annoying with their fancy layouts and tabs, etc. I notice the average person using rich text for emails, however, and I'm considering doing the same, so that I can put text-labeled links in my signatures. As long as executable apple

Re: Mailing List Conventions: Plain Text Versus Rich text?

2013-10-19 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Yes, technically that's true. For practical purposes, however, I was trying to distinguish between features such as bullets, bold and text alignment, which I use and seem to work fine with VoiceOver, and other HTML elements such as image links and the like, with which VoiceOver really seems to h

Re: Mailing List Conventions: Plain Text Versus Rich text?

2013-10-18 Thread Teresa Cochran
I'm a bit confused here. Rich text is the same is HtML, isn't it? For all intents and purposes, anyway. Teresa "We're made of star stuff."--Carl Sagan On Oct 18, 2013, at 9:30 PM, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > I can't speak for anyone else, but as for me… > > I used to be able to read HTML mess

Re: Mailing List Conventions: Plain Text Versus Rich text?

2013-10-18 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I can't speak for anyone else, but as for me… I used to be able to read HTML messages fine when I just viewed gmail in a web browser. HTML emails are annoying in Mac Mail, however, so I only send rich text messages. I don't send plane text messages, but if I receive an email with too much HTML,

Mailing List Conventions: Plain Text Versus Rich text?

2013-10-18 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, all, There was a discussion of this on another thread, so thought I'd bring it up as a general topic. Years ago, lists that were blindness-oriented used to be set for plain text only, as HTML would be rendered strangely by mail readers using plain text only. Now, there seems to be more of a