On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 20:20 -0700, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > And apparently, neither has the attitudes of the "why do I need to > send HTML messages" crowd. Nor those of the "I shall define what you see" crowd... >From time to time I receive a, shall we say, "formatted" message. Which either the author first started producing bad desktop publishing newsletters, and never progressed (the typist equivalent of gouging out your message with crayons), or just doesn't understand that all computers are not the same (weird colours, unreadable font decisions, strange fonts that get replaced by wildly inappropriate non-equivalents, unreal paper sizes, margins past the edges of paper, etc., abound. Even when a MSOE user receives a message from another MSOE user, there's still no guarantee that it'll display well. And the problems just compound when there's different mail clients used between sender and recipient. There's a very practical aspect to using deliberately basic HTML—define the contents of the contents, and let the viewer display it well. Though, unfortunately, even that fails, when you have typists who can't tell the difference between a paragraph and a list, typists who make each line of text its own paragraph, editors which code HTML badly, and email that makes it even worse (e.g. why the hell is there an empty table inserted in the middle of that email, etc.). I think more effort in good display of received messages is warranted before we get into composing. And then, something other than HTML does a better job at presenting a preformatted message in the way the author hoped. PDF is designed for such things, HTML is designed *not* to be. Even HTML + CSS is not designed to give DTP-like rendering control. But I think you're arguing with the wrong crowd. Evolution is an external project, it's just *used* here. You need to argue upstream about improving it, or provide the improvements. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.7-53.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
