Joseph- Monday, October 28, 2002, 11:38:35 AM, you wrote:
JN> What, either in terms of technical issues or design philosophy, would JN> prevent TB! from allowing bullets, italics, underlines, and bold? In JN> other words, why not go a little bit toward more functionality and JN> more complex communications, while still staying well away from the JN> problems of HTML? There are several centuries worth of literature that prove the point that not only does text mode not need RTF or HTML formatting, but that often simple text can get the point across much better than visual crutches. * Actually text supports bullet points quite well. * I can also even *emphasize* certain words, or "quote" them. If necessary, I can even SHOUT. Most of the "styled text" messages I receive from people are simply the a text message using a different font, i.e., the sender preferred that the recipient see the message in 10-point Times. I don't see this as adding anything to "functionality". I *do* see it adding to "more complex communications", but I don't think that's the sense you had in mind. There's also the "slippery slope" issue - where would you draw the line? Why stop at bullets, italics, underlines, and bold? What about strikeouts? What about color? Pretty soon you will find yourself implementing HTML just to have tags to support all the different styles you want to include. -Mark Wieder Using The Bat! v1.61 on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2 -- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
