-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Miguel A. Urech [MAU] wrote:'
Ritlabs seems to have an HTML editor in their list of features to definitely support at some point. For this reason, I didn't wish to comment on this thread. However, I find the pro-HTML arguments to be quite disturbing to the point where I can no longer maintain my silence. :) I therefore just *have to* jump in. MAU> Of course! Nobody should be forced to use a feature he doesn't MAU> want to use. This is *exactly*, and I stress *exactly*, the point that I push. We should always strive for this. This should be strived for in the context of both formatting your own mail and also reading mail. Of course, it's only in a few situations that you'll have everyone pleased, so you'll just have to do what will likely please most of your audience. If you're just corresponding with one individual and you know what they want, then no problem. Why push a format that so easily and trivially takes away the readers *choice* of background colour and font sizes?? Until clients incorporate ways to control this at the readers end, I cannot support HTML use in e-mail. MAU> I wouldn't use TB if I was forced to use PGP, but it is good the MAU> option is there for those who want or need to use it. Yes. If I use it, my text is just as readable as if I didn't. I don't cripple you, as a reader of my message, in any way. MAU> And I don't complain if the developers devote time to debugging MAU> or improving the PGP features. Sure. My problem isn't one of incorporating features that don't interest me. You're making it out to be this, and I don't think those who have commented negatively about HTML are against it simply because it doesn't interest them. You can't simply compare it to another language as you did in another message ... Spanish vs English. I'm commenting against it because there are problems with it. It creates a lot of problems for others. Problems that I myself experience daily and have explained in another message. Problems that the very sender isn't aware of in the majority of circumstances in which it occurs. The only HTML mail I can reliably read with comfort are from those who know how to compose it, i.e., HTML newsletters and such. Though I still have problems with some. I then open them in my browser. The HTML format does improve on the presentation of a newsletter or similar document. I'd have just as quickly accepted it as an HTML attachment anyway. - -- -=] allie_M [=- {List Moderator} MUA: TB! v1.63 Beta/4 ___ OS: WinXP Pro (SP1) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: My Public Keys - http://www.ac-martin.com/pgpkeys.html iD8DBQE+KVDQV8nrYCsHF+IRAgdPAKD2J4gNUAb+v60RYbGXwyZeEreKpwCg7IoZ y9/MIAlFRBhdEXeiOV5jTIw= =jfmM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html