On Thu, 2019-07-11 at 17:20 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: > As far as I'm concerned, html never belongs in emails, only on web > pages. Plain text is the only format I consider acceptable for > email. I tend to agree, but would swing the other way if it was done right. But it never will be, because the general public doesn't know how to use HTML, and nor do the email program coders. Don't believe that? Look at the source code for an HTML message, and it's stuffed full of crap that doesn't need to be there. In the past, that would be a complaint for message size, alone (which is less of an issue now we've gone past dial-up and tiny storage space), but more complexity is more chances for stuff-ups and malicious coding. Yesterday I posted a very long post with comments between pastes of logs. That would have been easier to read if I posted in HTML, marking out the log snippets separately from my comments. Trying to do that in plain text is hard, line wrapping makes a mess of pasted log files (or code, and many other things). On just one point alone, you can't easily indent long lines without falling foul of wrapping, if you wanted to do that to make the pastings get out of the way of reading the prose. Blockquotes with cites could unscramble the mess of replying with a quote, and knowing who original wrote it. But again, mail clients don't do that, and people wouldn't understand how to use it. Being able to use a proper list, would aid in legibility, particularly with largish content. Instead of manually typing in asterisks or dashs, manually adding spaces, tabs, and carriage returns to emulate one. Which all goes awry when quoted and re-flowed, or just badly line -breaked. Example, just above. My email program doesn't know that a hyphenated word spread across two lines ought to have the hyphen at the end of the line it breaks at, not at the beginning of the next one. And none of them manage sane wrapping of content when it's typed by people who don't know that there is no space between opening brackets and their contents, and none between contents and closing brackets. i.e. Ignoring computer coding practices, when you type *prose* this is the ( wrong ) and (correct) way to type brackets around text. Type that wrong, and cross the end of a line, the computer will not wrap it well. It's just hideous to try and read something splattered about like that, it makes it look like an 8 year old typed it. We have plain text mail clients doing all sorts of parsing gymnastics trying to not to mangle plain text (i.e. the rewrapping that some of them do when quoting), or just making an unreadable pile of crap out of prior quotes. The ability to show a screen grab, or any other kind of illustration, alongside the commentary about it would be useful, instead of an email with a series of see attachment 2, kind of notes spread throughout it. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
