On 19/12/2012 23:30, Rob wrote: > I found by accident that the 2.14.1 version we are using now has > a nasty bug in the message composition mode. > > When composing in HTML, and after setting a custom font size in > the options for message composition (default is medium, set to > small or large for example) the composer peppers a lot of nested > <font size="x"> </font> tags in the message. Many more than > are required. It is not clear to me when it inserts a new one, > maybe after backspacing or similar. I saw messages with 20 > or more nested font tags. > > What makes it even worse is that stupid change (made a couple of > versions before) to pretty-print the outgoing HTML. It is > indented based on the tag level, so each level of <font> indents > it more. There is absolutely no point in doing that, it only > wastes space and bandwidth for no purpose. > > The combined result is HTML crap that even Microsoft would be ashamed of. > > I think some priority has to be given to fix both bugs. > The pretty-printing should at least be made optional, defaulting > to off, and the change that introduced the <font size> problem should > be reverted or looked at. > > I had to disable font size preselection (by lockPref) temporarily > to work around the issues it causes. But I know of no way to turn > off the pretty-printing.
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=812638> Bug 812638 - Thunderbird is inserting random and incorrect <font size="3"> tags in the middle of words throughout my email message. (edit) Phil -- Philip Chee <phi...@aleytys.pc.my>, <philip.c...@gmail.com> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey