Hi Peter, On Saturday, November 08, 2003, at 5:15:11 PM PST, you wrote:
> Hence, do not hard-wrap lines. Let the end-user decide what s/he > likes. <snip> > In HTML-lingo it's called liquid design. Wrapping adjusts to the end > users' browser width. Thankfully, I can, as I prefer to, deal with email in plain text...both outgoing and incoming. Therefore, HTML/Browser conventions don't interest me much when dealing with email. Furthermore, I respect the idea that when someone sends me an email, I should see it as *they* composed/intended it. There are often reasons why someone will choose to send an email with certain formatting, and that's how I want to see it (yes, even in the rare cases when someone really wants to send me an HTML formatted message for some reason other than simply being oblivious to alternatives). Naturally, I also might hope that the sender's idea of an "easy to read" message is something that I can appreciate. In any event, I want to see what the *sender's intent* was. So... I have my viewing windows sized in such a way to accommodate what I usually encounter... My preview pane is about 95 characters wide (10 pt Courier New font)...and this accommodates most *well-formatted* (in my opinion) plain text just fine for most reading purposes. It is also a comfortable preview pane size for me relative to my preferences with regards to the folder tree and the message index that surround it in my full screen view. I'm using a 17 inch monitor with a resolution of 1024x768. Now...my *Folder View* window is set to fill the entire screen width and height (about 140+ characters wide considering my preferred display font size), so that if I ever do encounter a message with formatting that doesn't comfortably fit into the preview pane, I can open up the wider folder view. If an "HTML liquid style" message is viewed in the folder view, I'm looking at 140+ character line lengths! That's simply absurd...and it's not convenient for me to have a smaller folder view just to make such a message wrap to a more "reasonable" length for reading comfort. > See above. It will be up to you to set your preferences. What else > can you wish for? My preference is to see what a sender wishes me to see. Unfortunately, that sometimes means that I'm looking at what I consider to be either "sloppy" or "unreasonable" formatting. Either way, regardless of *my* preferences, I want to see what someone wants to present to me, whatever that means *to them*. In conclusion: If you want to send unwrapped lines to me ("liquid" as you call it), you're not doing *me* any favors, so from my point of view, you're not respecting *my* preferences. :-) -- Melissa PGP public keys: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]&Body=Please%20send%20keys TB! v2.01.3 on Windows XP 5.1.2600 Service Pack 1
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