On Wednesday 23 November 2005 01:02, Leo Mauler wrote:
--- Luke-Jr luke@dashjr.org wrote:
On Sunday 20 November 2005 21:18, Leo Mauler wrote:
This brings up another point: some people have been posting to the list using some form of structured formatting language such as HTML. I'm speaking of the lines on the side of the posting instead of > characters.
Too bad KMail doesn't support it.
Referring to HTML, note.
Then that's a bug in your webmail or browser.
If your mail program cannot handle HTML, then it should ignore it and use the text/plain section. If it uses text/html then it should be reasonable to expect it to handle it properly.
So it seems that there are at least two instances where the lines instead of make the E-mail harder to read for some people.
No, the lack in KMail is the inability to properly setup HTML replies. KMail, as it should, uses the text/plain for reply quoting. A bug in a mail program is just that: a bug. The internet should not work around the bug of a mail program. The mail program should be fixed or replaced.
Seems to me anyone who wants E-mail sent with the label "Best Viewed With X E-mail Application"
Nobody is asking for that. However, a broken email program is not an excuse to cripple the entire internet email exchange.
is yearning for the bad old days when you couldn't be sure an E-mail written on one E-mail application could be read by another E-mail application, network, or operating system. (with apologies to Tim Berners-Lee).
What days? As far as I'm aware, the classic text/plain email has always worked everywhere.