On Tuesday 03 December 2002 08:59 am, Simon wrote: > Although I have absolutely no wish to use an HTML feature should > it be introduced, the addition of such a feature as an option would > probably bring more potential users haring towards TB! for a trial. > That can only be a good thing, surely? And I am sure that any > _remaining_ 'die hard' core users would soon be able to whop the > *text-based email illiterati* into shape - well from my experiences of > this list I am in no doubt of that ;-)
The only time I find html mail useful is on certain newsletters I receive. As far as email from friends, I despise the bloated crap produced by clients like Outlook or that despicable Incredimail. :-) But at the same time, TB should offer better html support. And it could do so without relying on Internet Explorer DLLs. Let's take a look at one of TB's competitors, Pocomail. It has its own rendering engine that isn't dependent on IE or Netscape/Mozilla. It also offers the ability to toggle on/off the downloading of images referenced by the html mail, so the "web bug" trick used by spammers won't work. This is the route TB needs to take. Like it or not html mail is here to stay and Ritlabs ignoring it won't gain them any new customers. For the purist, there could be an option to disable html mail entirely, much like KMail for the KDE desktop in Linux does. -- Regards, Don Zeigler www.donzeigler.com Unofficial support forum for the Bat! the-bat-forums.donzeigler.com I'm a Linux user in a Windoze world This mail powered by KMail and Mandrake Linux ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
