On Sunday, September 10, 2000, 5:27:20 AM, A. wrote:
> This is a very valid point. Netscape Mail and OE will fetch images
> via links in HTML messages via their browser partners rendering
> engines. Eudora, AFAIK, uses the rendering engine of IE (correct
> me if I'm wrong here). The problem with using IE as a rendering
> engine is that the user needs to have IE installed.
Not only that, by doing so they also inherit IE's susceptibility to
bugs and viruses.
> The users accustomed to a monolithic approach may frown at this
> point though it's a very good one. By monolithic, I mean that the
> application, an e-mail client in this instance, is self contained
> and able to do most if not all things e-mail related. This is in
> contrast to the modular approach where specialised independent
> apps are used in conjunction with the e-mail client to produce a
> similar effect, though usually a more robust and user definable
> one.
I'm not really against the monolithic approach as you defined. It's
fine with me should RIT decide to incorporate a html/richtext editor
in TB, though I have very little use of it. Given the long list of
improvement expected for v2 and the extremely limited resources,
however, I sincerely think it's not wise for RIT to do so.
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Best regards,
Ming-Li
The Bat! 1.46 Beta/5 | Win2k SP1
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